Associations to the word «Decuman»

Wiktionary

DECUMAN, adjective. (obsolete) large; chief; applied to an extraordinary billow, supposed by some to be every tenth in order.
DECUMAN, noun. (obsolete) An extraordinarily large billow.

Wise words

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates