septuaginta

See also: Septuaginta

Latin

Latin numbers ^(edit)

	700
←  69	LXX 70	71  →
	7
Cardinal: septuāgintā     Ordinal: septuāgēsimus     Adverbial: septuāgiēs     Distributive: septuāgēnī

Alternative forms

• Symbol: LXX
• septaginta, (Late—Med.) septuagenta, septuazinta, septagita

Etymology

From earlier *septmāginta, from Proto-Indo-European *septm̥̄ḱomt, from earlier *septḿ̥-dḱomt (“seven-ten”). Cognate with Ancient Greek ἑβδομήκοντα (hebdomḗkonta).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /sep.tu.aːˈɡin.taː/, [s̠ɛp.t̪ʊ.aːˈɡɪn̪.t̪aː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sep.tu.aˈd͡ʒin.ta/, [sɛp.t̪u.aˈd͡ʒin̪.t̪a]

• Audio (Classical)

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Numeral

septuāgintā (indeclinable)

1. seventy; 70

Derived terms

• duodēseptuāgintā
• ūndēseptuāgintā

Related terms

• septem

Descendants

• Asturian: setenta
• Catalan: setanta
• Dalmatian: septuanta
• English: Septuagint
• French: septante
• Friulian: setante
• Galician: setenta
• Italian: settanta
• Ladin: setanta

• Occitan: setanta
• Old French setante
• Portuguese: setenta
• Romansch: settanta, siatonta, satànta, settaunta
• Sardinian: setanta
• Sicilian: sittanta
• Spanish: setenta
• Venetian: setanta
• Walloon: septante

See also

• Appendix:Latin cardinal numerals

References

• septuaginta in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• septuaginta in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• septuaginta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette