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Dean

Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2019 10:22 am
by Audiendus
dean

A senior official of some kind in a university, college, cathedral, church etc.

From Latin decanus, a person in charge of ten people. (Surprisingly, the English word deacon does not come from this root.)

Re: Dean

Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2020 8:48 am
by Slava
In addition, the adjective decanal is also not related to deacon, but to dean.

Deans tend to have a few more than 10 under them nowadays.