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Septimus

Septimus comes from Latin Septimus ‘seventh’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *septḿ̥.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*septḿ̥‘seven’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*septm̥mós‘seventh’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*Septəmosreconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CESeptimus‘seventh’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1925same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*septḿ̥‘seven’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*septm̥mós‘seventh’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*Septəmosreconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CESeptimus‘seventh’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1925same form

Earliest quotation: 1925, Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway: “London has swallowed up many millions of young men…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *septḿ̥ ‘seven’

seven, 19 more

through Proto-Indo-European *septm̥mós ‘seventh’

seventh, 4 more

Today it means

name A male given name from Latin.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *septḿ̥ / Septimus

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