The Latin word decĭmus came to Spanish as décima or tenth . This is what is called that which continues in order to the ninth . For example: “The German driver finished the race in tenth position,” “The tenth edition of the international book fair will take place next August,” “This is the tenth time I've told you: order your fourth or I will not give you permission to attend the dance.”
Take the case of a solidarity campaign that is carried out with the objective of collecting warm clothing that is then donated to the poorest people during the winter. This annual campaign was carried out for the first time in 1989 and, since then, it has been carried out without interruptions. This means that the tenth edition of the initiative took place in 1998 , succeeding the editions of 1989 (the first), 1990 (second), 1991 (third), 1992 (fourth), 1993 (fifth), 1994 (sixth). , 1995 (seventh), 1996 (eighth) and 1997 (ninth)
In many areas, such as a solidarity campaign, but also television, radio or publishing, reaching the tenth edition of a certain project can be of great importance. If we take for example a radio program made with few resources but with great dedication, it is not always possible to keep it alive for ten seasons, regardless of how long each one lasts, since the world is controlled by large companies; In this way, such a case is worthy of admiration.
The number ten is very significant in cultures that use the decimal system as the basis of their arithmetic operations. We are accustomed to dividing life itself into portions of ten units: whether periods of ten years, groups of ten people or even sections that are measured in multiples of ten of the official units, as is the case with streets that are divided into roads of one hundred meters or the parts of the roads that measure one kilometer.
This is not a coincidence but rather comes from the fact that our first approach to mathematics teaches us that multiples of ten are, in some way, milestones into which everything is divided. From a young age we learn to use all kinds of devices that remind us of this arbitrary limit of ten units, such as the telephone or the calculator with its ten possible digits, as well as the channels on the television, the programs on the washing machine and the combination of a box. strong.
The first paragraph refers to the tenth warning that a father or mother gives to one of their children, and this must be understood figuratively: it is not necessarily a series of ten repetitions , but this term is used to emphasize the fact that the message has been given to you many, too many times and that it is time for you to understand it and behave accordingly.
The tenth time weighs more than the ninth or even the thirteenth, probably because it is the first of all to go from one figure to two.
Each of the identical parts into which something is divided is also known as a tenth: a unit of measurement, a degree of fever, a lottery ticket , etc.
In the field of poetry , a décima is a composition made up of a dozen octosyllabic verses , of which the first verse rhymes with the fourth and the fifth; the second rhymes with the third; the sixth is combined with the seventh and with the tenth; and the eighth rhymes with the ninth. After the fourth verse, a colon or full stop can be used, but not after the fifth.