Dime
nounA coin of the United States and Canada worth ten cents, one tenth of a dollar.
How to spell dime
4 letters · 1 syllable
How to pronounce dime
What does dime mean?
- nounA coin of the United States and Canada worth ten cents, one tenth of a dollar.
Dime in a sentence
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He dropped a dime into the parking meter.
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The vending machine would not accept the worn dime.
Where does dime come from?
Language of origin: Latin
This word traces back to the Latin decima, meaning 'a tenth part', which was a feminine form of decimus 'tenth', built on decem 'ten'. In medieval France this became disme, the term for a tithe, the tenth of one's produce owed to the church. English borrowed the French word in the 1300s, originally meaning a tenth or a tithe. When the new United States set up its decimal currency in the 1780s and 1790s, the word was revived and respelled as 'dime' to name the coin worth one tenth of a dollar. The same decem root sits inside familiar relatives such as 'decimal', 'December' (once the tenth month of the Roman calendar), and 'decimate'.
How the word is built
- dime (from Latin decima: a tenth part)
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