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What does the word Dime mean?

Updated: 9/15/2023
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A dime is a ten cent coin More The name "dime" actually is a contraction of the name "disme" that was given to 10-cent coins when they were first issued in the 1790s, and "disme" is itself derived from the French word "dixième" (roughly, "dees-YEMM") meaning "one tenth". The origin of the French word goes back to the Latin "decima pars" (a tenth part)

The idea for the name disme was the same as that of the cent - a disme is one tenth of a dollar, and a cent is one one-hundredth of a dollar: "Cent" is derived from the Latin word for 100.

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