décima

Decima can refer to:

• Decima (mythology), a goddess in Roman mythology and one of the Parcae (Fates)
• Décima, a type of poetic form with roots in Spanish literature
• Decima Research, a Canadian polling company
• Decima gallery, a London-based arts organisation
• The Latinized name of Deshima island off the Japanese coast, where a Dutch trading establishment was located during the empire's isolation
• A villainous organization on the CBS television series Person of Interest.
• An obsolete unit of length, proposed by Gabriel Mouton.

A décima refers to a ten-line stanza of poetry, and the song form generally consists of forty-four lines (an introductory four-verse stanza followed by four ten-line stanzas). It is also called "espinela," after its founder, Vicente Espinel (1550–1624), a Spanish writer and musician of the Siglo de Oro.