septuaginta

See also: Septuaginta and Septuagintą

Latin

Latin numbers ^(edit)

		700
←  60	←  69	LXX 70	71  →	80  → [a], [b], [c]
		7
Cardinal: septuāgintā     Ordinal: septuāgēsimus     Adverbial: septuāgiēs     Proportional: septuāgecuplus     Distributive: septuāgēnus

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 septem and Ancient Greek ἑβδομήκοντα (hebdomḗkonta).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /sep.tu.aːˈɡin.taː/, [s̠ɛpt̪uäːˈɡɪn̪t̪äː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sep.tu.aˈd͡ʒin.ta/, [sept̪uäˈd͡ʒin̪t̪ä]

Numeral

septuāgintā (indeclinable)

1. seventy; 70

Derived terms

• duodēseptuāgintā
• ūndēseptuāgintā
• Septuaginta

Descendants

• Dalmatian:
  • setuonta
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: settanta
  • Sicilian: sittanta
• North Italian:
  • Friulian: setante
  • Ladin: setanta
  • Romansch: settanta, siatonta, satànta, settaunta
  • Venetan: setanta
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: setante
    • French: septante (regional; /p/ from Latin influence)
      • → Walloon: septante
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Catalan: setanta
  • Occitan: setanta
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: setenta
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: setaenta
    • Galician: setenta
    • Portuguese: setenta
  • Old Spanish: setaenta
    • Spanish: setenta
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: setanta
• Borrowings:
  • → English: Septuagint, septuagint

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.