Dec

See also: dec, DEC, dec., dec-, and Dec.

English

Etymology 1

Clipping of Declan.

Proper noun

Dec (plural Decs)

1. A diminutive of the male given name Declan.

Etymology 2

Abbreviation of December.

Proper noun

Dec

2. Abbreviation of December.

   Alternative forms: Dec., DEC

   Coordinate terms: Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep/Sept, Oct, Nov

Translations

abbreviation of December

• Afrikaans: Des. (af)
• Albanian: dhj
• Amharic: ዲሴም (disem)
• Armenian: դեկ (dek)
• Azerbaijani: dek (az)
• Basque: abe.
• Belarusian: сне (snje)
• Bengali: ডিসে (ḍiśe)
• Bulgarian: дек (dek), дек. (dek.)
• Burmese: ဒီ (my) (di)
• Catalan: des. (ca)
• Czech: pro (cs)
• Danish: dec.
• Dutch: dec (nl)
• Estonian: dets (et)
• Finnish: joulu (fi), jouluk.
• French: déc. (fr)
• Galician: dec.
• Georgian: დეკ. (deḳ.)
• German: Dez. (de)
• Greek: Δεκ (Dek)
• Hebrew: דצמ׳ (detsem.)
• Hindi: दिस॰ (dis.)
• Hungarian: dec. (hu)
• Icelandic: des. (is)
• Indonesian: Des
• Italian: dic., dic (it)
• Kannada: ಡಿಸೆಂ (ḍiseṃ)
• Kazakh: жел. (jel.)
• Kyrgyz: дек. (dek.)
• Latvian: dec.
• Lithuanian: gruod.
• Macedonian: дек. (dek.)
• Malay: Dis (ms)
• Malayalam: ഡിസം (ḍisaṁ)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: des. (no)

• Polish: gru (pl)
• Portuguese: dez. (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਦਸੰ (dasã)
• Romanian: dec.
• Russian: дек. (ru) (dek.)
• Scottish Gaelic: Dùbh (gd)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: дец m

  Latin: dec m, pro m (Croatia)

• Slovak: dec, dec.
• Slovene: dec.
• Spanish: dic., dic
• Swahili: Des
• Swedish: dec. (sv), dec (sv)
• Tagalog: Dis., Dis
• Tamil: டிச. (ṭica.)
• Telugu: డిసెం (ḍiseṁ)
• Thai: ธ.ค. (th) (tɔɔ.kɔɔ.)
• Turkish: Ara (tr)
• Ukrainian: груд. (hrud.)
• Uzbek: dek (uz)
• Welsh: Tach

Anagrams

• CDE, CED, Cde, DCE, ECD, EDC

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛt͡s/
• Rhymes: -ɛt͡s
• Syllabification: Dec

Proper noun

Dec m pers

1. a male surname

Declension

Declension of Dec

	singular	plural
nominative	Dec	Decowie, Dece1
genitive	Deca	Deców
dative	Decowi	Decom
accusative	Deca	Deców
instrumental	Decem	Decami
locative	Decu	Decach
vocative	Decu	Decowie

¹Deprecative.

Proper noun

Dec f (indeclinable)

1. a female surname

Derived terms

• Decowa
• Decówna

Further reading

• “Dec”, in Internetowy słownik nazwisk w Polsce [Internet dictionary of surnames in Poland], 2025–2030