septuaginta

See also: Septuaginta, septuagint, and 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 septem and Ancient Greek ἑβδομήκοντα (hebdomḗkonta).

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Classical)

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Numeral

septuāgintā (indeclinable)

1. seventy; 70

Derived terms

• septuageni
• duodēseptuāgintā
• ūndēseptuāgintā
• Septuaginta

Descendants

• Dalmato-Romance:
  • Dalmatian: septuanta, setuonta
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: settanta
  • Sicilian: sittanta
• Padanian:
  • Friulian: setante
  • Ladin: setanta
  • Romansch: settanta, siatonta, satànta, settaunta
  • Venetian: setanta
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: setante
    • French: septante (regional; /p/ from Latin influence)
      • → Walloon: septante
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: setanta
  • Occitan: setanta
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: setenta
  • Old 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[homas] Lewis; Charles [Lancaster] Short (1879) […] A New Latin Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company; 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