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septimus

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Latin

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Latin numbers (edit)
70
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    Cardinal: septem
    Ordinal: septimus
    Adverbial: septiēs, septiēns
    Proportional: septuplus
    Multiplier: septemplex, septimplex, septuplex, septiplex
    Distributive: septēnus
    Fractional: septāns

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-Italic *septVmos 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

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Numeral

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

  1. seventh

Declension

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First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative septimus septima septimum septimī septimae septima
genitive septimī septimae septimī septimōrum septimārum septimōrum
dative septimō septimae septimō septimīs
accusative septimum septimam septimum septimōs septimās septima
ablative septimō septimā septimō septimīs
vocative septime septima septimum septimī septimae septima

Derived terms

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Descendants

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Noun

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septimus m sg (genitive septimī); second declension

  1. Short for septimus cāsus, a seventh grammatical case used by some grammarians to define usages of the ablative that do not fit the case's original or usual synthactic role (showing instrumental, locative or even adverbial ablativeness)
    • c. 35 CE – 100 CE, Quintilian, I. iv. 26:
      Quaerat [praeceptor] etiam, sitne apud Graecos vis quaedam sexti casus et apud nos quoque septimi, nam cum dico "hasta percussi", non utor ablativi natura; nec, si idem Graece dicam, dativi.
      The teacher must also inquire if there be traces of a sixth case in Greek and in Latin of a seventh; for when I say "hurt by a spear", I do not make use of the ablative, nor am I using the dative if I do utter the self same sentence in Greek.
    • c. 4th-5th century, Servius, Commentarii in Virgilium Liber V, v.127-128:
      [ [] ; tranquillo silet, immotaque attollitur unda campus, et apricis statio gratissima mergis.] "tranquillo" melius septimus est, quam dativus.
      [ [] ; but when everything stands in perfect tranquillity, high aloft over the calm sea the rock rises and offers solace to the basking sea-loon (diver).] "tranquillo" is better read as declined in the seventh case than as a dative.

Declension

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Second-declension noun, singular only.

References

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  • 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