δεκαετής

A. ten years old, Hdt. 1.114, Hp. Epid. 1.10.

II. of or lasting ten years, πόλεμος Th. 5.25,26 codd., Jul. Or. 2.74b. (Cf. δεκέτης.)— The statements of Gramm. as to the accentuation of this and similar words are confused, cf.Poll. 1.54, EM 765.21, Choerob. in Theod. 1.167, 2.385: they were prob. parox. in Attic, oxyt. in the κοινή.