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desyatin

/ˈdɛsjətiːn/

desyatin is the alternative form of dessiatina.

Meaning of dessiatina

Noun

dessiatina (plural dessiatinas or dessiatiny)

  1. A Russian measure of land, roughly 1.1 hectares.
    • The tract of land given by the emperor contains five hundred and forty-five acres, (twenty dessjatines,) being two thousand two hundred and five feet long, and one thousand five hundred and eighty-two wide at its greatest breadth.1849 July, “The Observatory at Pulkowa”, in The North American Review, volume 69, number 144

Forms of desyatin

pluraldesyatins

Questions about desyatin

What is desyatin the alternative form of?
Desyatin is the alternative form of dessiatina.
How do you pronounce desyatin?
Desyatin is pronounced /ˈdɛsjətiːn/.

Words near desyatin in the dictionary

  1. desvenlafaxine
  2. deswell
  3. deswelling
  4. deswells
  5. deswollen
  6. desyatin
  7. desyatina
  8. desyatinas
  9. desyatins
  10. desychronization
  11. desyllabified

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Adapted from Wiktionary: desyatin (page history and authors); dessiatina (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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