septimana

Interlingua

Noun

septimana (plural septimanas)

1. week

Latin

Etymology

Used as a noun in Late Latin, and derived from the adjective septimānus (“related to the seventh element of a series”), derived from septimus (“seventh”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [sɛp.tɪˈmaː.na]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [sep.tiˈmaː.na]

Noun

septimāna f (genitive septimānae); first declension

1. (Late Latin) week

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	septimāna	septimānae
genitive	septimānae	septimānārum
dative	septimānae	septimānīs
accusative	septimānam	septimānās
ablative	septimānā	septimānīs
vocative	septimāna	septimānae

Synonyms

• (a week): hebdomas

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: siptãmãnã, stãmãnã, stãmene
  • Megleno-Romanian: săptămănă, săptămǫnă, sămǫnă, smǫnă
  • Romanian: săptămână
• Dalmatian:
  • setimuón, setemúna
• Italo-Romance:
  • Corsican: settimana, simana, sittimana
  • Italian: settimana
    • → Sabir: settimana
  • Neapolitan: semmana

    Tarantino: sumana

• North Italian:
  • Emilian: stmèna
  • Friulian: setemane
  • Ladin: setemena, setemèna
  • Lombard: satmana, satména, semana, selmana
  • Piedmontese: sman-a
  • Romagnol: stmana
  • Venetan: setimana, stemana, stimana, setemana
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: setmana
  • Franco-Provençal: semana
  • Old French: semaine (see there for further descendants)
  • Occitan: setmana
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Old Navarro-Aragonese: semana
    • Aragonese: semana
  • Old Leonese: , selmana
    • Asturian: selmana
    • Leonese: selmana
    • Mirandese: sumana
  • Old Galician-Portuguese:
    • Galician: semana
    • Portuguese: semana (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Spanish: setmana, semana
    • Ladino: semana
    • Spanish: semana (see there for further descendants)
    • → Moroccan Arabic: سيمانة (simāna)
• Ancient borrowings:
  • → Old Irish: sechtmain
    • Irish: seachtain
    • Manx: shiaghtin
    • Scottish Gaelic: seachdain
• Later borrowings:
  • → English: septimane
  • → Interlingua: septimana

References

• “septimana”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "septimana", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “septimana”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• septimana in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016