septendecim
Latin edit
| ← 16 | XVII 17 |
18 → [a], [b] |
|---|---|---|
| Cardinal: septendecim Ordinal: septimusdecimus, septimus decimus | ||
Alternative forms edit
- septemdecim
- Symbol: XVII
Etymology edit
From septem (“seven”) + decem (“ten”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /sepˈten.de.kim/, [s̠ɛpˈt̪ɛn̪d̪ɛkɪ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /sepˈten.de.t͡ʃim/, [sepˈt̪ɛn̪d̪et͡ʃim]
Numeral edit
septendecim (indeclinable)
- seventeen; 17
- 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 25:
- tribuni plebis, si iis uideretur, ad populum ferrent ut, qui minores septendecim annis sacramento dixissent, iis perinde stipendia procederent ac si septendecim annorum aut maiores milites facti essent.
- The tribunes of the plebs might, if they thought good, make a proposal to the people that those who had taken the military oath when under seventeen years of age should have their pay reckoned to them on the same scale as if they had been enlisted at seventeen, or older.
- tribuni plebis, si iis uideretur, ad populum ferrent ut, qui minores septendecim annis sacramento dixissent, iis perinde stipendia procederent ac si septendecim annorum aut maiores milites facti essent.
- 1624, Francis Bacon, Nova Atlantis:
- Respondimus universum numerum tam sanorum quam aegrotorum esse ad unum et quinquaginta homines, ex quibus aegroti erant septendecim.
- We answered, “We were in all (sick and whole) one–and–fifty persons, whereof our sick were seventeen.”
See also edit
References edit
- “septendecim”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “septendecim”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- septendecim in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.