septimus

See also: Septimus

Latin

Latin numbers ^(edit)

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Cardinal: septem     Ordinal: septimus     Adverbial: septiēs, septiēns     Proportional: septuplus     Multiplier: septemplex, septimplex, septuplex     Distributive: septēnus     Fractional: septāns

Alternative forms

• 7mus

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *septemos, from Proto-Indo-European *septmós. By surface analysis, septem (“seven”) +‎ -us.

Cognates include Old Church Slavonic седмъ (sedmŭ) (< *sebdmъ < *septmъ) and the proper name Septimius, from a modification of Septimus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsep.ti.mus/, [ˈs̠ɛpt̪ɪmʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsep.ti.mus/, [ˈsɛpt̪imus]

Numeral

septimus (feminine septima, neuter septimum); first/second-declension numeral

1. seventh

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	septimus	septima	septimum		septimī	septimae	septima
Genitive	septimī	septimae	septimī		septimōrum	septimārum	septimōrum
Dative	septimō		septimō		septimīs
Accusative	septimum	septimam	septimum		septimōs	septimās	septima
Ablative	septimō	septimā	septimō		septimīs
Vocative	septime	septima	septimum		septimī	septimae	septima

Derived terms

• septimāna
• septimānus
• Septimius
• Septimus

 

Descendants

• Old French: setme
• Italian: settimo
• Old Spanish: sietmo
• Sicilian: sèttimu
• → Catalan: sèptim
• → English: septimate, septimation, septime
• → French: septime
• → Galician: sétimo
• → Portuguese: sétimo
• → Spanish: séptimo, sétimo

References

• “septimus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “septimus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• septimus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• septimus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • consul for the sixth, seventh time: sextum (Pis. 9. 20), septimum consul