novem
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novem
LatinEdit
90[a], [b] | ||
← 8 | IX 9 |
10 → |
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Cardinal: novem Ordinal: nōnus Adverbial: noviēs Multiplier: novemplus, novemplex, nonuplus, nonuplex, noncuplus, noncuplex, novemcuplus, novemcuplex Distributive: novēnī Fractional: nōnus |
PronunciationEdit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈno.wem/, [ˈnɔ.wɛ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈno.vem/, [ˈnɔː.vɛm]
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Etymology 1Edit
For *noven (contaminated by decem, original form preserved in nōnus < *h₁newnos), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥. Cognates include Sanskrit नवन् (navan), Ancient Greek ἐννέα (ennéa) and Old English niġon (English nine).
Alternative formsEdit
- Symbol: IX
NumeralEdit
novem (indeclinable)
- nine; 9
- 8 CE, Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.262-264:
- perque novem luces expers undaeque cibique
rore mero lacrimisque suis ieiunia pavit
nec se movit humo- For nine whole days she sat, tasting neither drink nor food,
her hunger fed by naught save pure dew and tears,
and moved not from the ground.
- For nine whole days she sat, tasting neither drink nor food,
- perque novem luces expers undaeque cibique
- 397 CE – 401 CE, Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis, Confessions 4.1.1:
- per idem tempus annorum novem, ab undevicensimo anno aetatis meae usque ad duodetricensimum, seducebamur et seducebamus
- During this period of nine years, from my nineteenth year to my twenty-eighth, I went astray and led others astray.
- per idem tempus annorum novem, ab undevicensimo anno aetatis meae usque ad duodetricensimum, seducebamur et seducebamus
- 405, Jerome and others, Vulgate, Iosue 13:7
- et nunc divide terram in possessionem novem tribubus et dimidiae tribui Manasse
- Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance unto the nine tribes, and the half tribe of Manasseh
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Etymology 2Edit
From novō (“renew, refresh”).
VerbEdit
novem
ReferencesEdit
- novem in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- novem in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- novem in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN