septuennis
Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From septem (“seven”) + annus (“year”) + -is (forming compound adjectives).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [sɛp.tuˈɛn.nɪs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [sep.tuˈɛn.nis]
Adjective
[edit]septuennis (neuter septuenne); third-declension two-termination adjective
- seven-year-old
- c. 200 BCE, Plautus, Menaechmi prologus.0.24–28:
- Postquam iam pueri septuennes sunt, pater
oneravit navem magnam multis mercibus;
imponit geminum alterum in navem pater,
Tarentum avexit secum ad mercatum simul,
illum reliquit alterum apud matrem domi.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- Postquam iam pueri septuennes sunt, pater
- c. 190 BCE, Plautus, Bacchides 3.3.33–37:
- [Philoxenus] Alii, Lyde, nunc sunt mores.
[Lydus] Id equidem ego certo scio.
Nam olim populi prius honorem capiebat suffragio,
quam magistro desinebat esse dicto oboediens;
at nunc, prius quam septuennis est, si attingas eum manu,
extemplo puer paedagogo tabula disrumpit caput.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- [Philoxenus] Alii, Lyde, nunc sunt mores.
- of six years, lasting six years
- Synonym: septennālis
- (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Declension
[edit]Third-declension two-termination adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masc./fem. | neuter | masc./fem. | neuter | ||
| nominative | septuennis | septuenne | septuennēs | septuennia | |
| genitive | septuennis | septuennium | |||
| dative | septuennī | septuennibus | |||
| accusative | septuennem | septuenne | septuennīs septuennēs |
septuennia | |
| ablative | septuennī | septuennibus | |||
| vocative | septuennis | septuenne | septuennēs | septuennia | |
Coordinate terms
[edit]- biennis
- triennis
- quadriennis
- quīnquennis
- sexennis
- octennis
- novennis
- decennis
- ūndecennis
- duodecennis
- trēdecennis
- quattuordecennis
- quīndecennis
- sēdecennis
- septendecennis
- duodēvīcennis
- undēvīcennis
- vīcennis
- trīcennis
- quadrāgennis
- quīnquāgennis
- sexāgennis
- septuāgennis
- octōgennis
- nōnāgennis
- centennis
- ducentennis
- trecentennis
- quadringentennis
- quīngentennis
- sescentennis
- septingentennis
- octingentennis
- nōngentennis
- mīllennis
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “septuennis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “septuennis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.