sept
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
A corruption of sect, influenced by Latin saeptum (“fence, enclosure”).
Noun[edit]
sept (plural septs)
- A clan, tribe, or family, proceeding from a common progenitor (used especially of the ancient clans in Ireland).
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1842, Samuel Lover, Handy Andy[1], volume 2:
- The chief, struck by the illustration, asked at once to be baptized, and all his sept followed his example.
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See also[edit]
Sept on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Sept in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
References[edit]
- sept in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
Etymology 2[edit]
Probably influenced by weep → wept.
Verb[edit]
sept
- (nonstandard, rare) simple past tense and past participle of seep
- For usage examples of this term, see Citations:sept.
Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle French sept, from Old French set, from Latin septem (“seven”), from Proto-Indo-European *septḿ̥.
Pronunciation[edit]
Numeral[edit]
| < 6 | 7 | 8 > |
|---|---|---|
| Cardinal : sept Ordinal : septième |
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| French Wikipedia article on sept | ||
sept
Derived terms[edit]
See also[edit]
| Playing cards in French · cartes à jouer (layout · text) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| as | deux | trois | quatre | cinq | six | sept |
| huit | neuf | dix | valet | dame | roi | joker |
Anagrams[edit]
External links[edit]
- “sept” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French set.
Numeral[edit]
sept (invariable)
Descendants[edit]
- French: sept
Norman[edit]
| < 6 | 7 | 8 > |
|---|---|---|
| Cardinal : sept | ||
Alternative forms[edit]
- saept (Guernsey)
Etymology[edit]
From Latin septem, from Proto-Indo-European *septḿ̥.
Pronunciation[edit]
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Audio (Jersey) (file)
Numeral[edit]
sept
Derived terms[edit]
- dgiêx-sept (“seventeen”)
Romanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowing from French septum, Borrowing from Latin saeptum.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
sept n (plural septuri)
Declension[edit]
declension of sept
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) sept | septul | (niște) septuri | septurile |
| genitive/dative | (unui) sept | septului | (unor) septuri | septurilor |
| vocative | septule | septurilor | ||
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