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septem

seven

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Where it lives

Cato 2 · 46.73/10k
Carmen Saeculare 1 · 32.36/10k
Ludus Septem Sapientum 3 · 22.74/10k
Thrasybulus 1 · 16.67/10k
Dittochaeon 2 · 16.34/10k
Cento Nuptialis 2 · 14.66/10k
Eclogarum Liber 3 · 10.96/10k
Griphus Ternarii numeri 1 · 9.35/10k
Eumenes 2 · 8.74/10k
Epitaphia heroum qui bello Troico interfuerunt 1 · 8.33/10k
Timaeus 3 · 7.11/10k
Divus Claudius 2 · 6.74/10k

Densest 12 of 136 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. septem — de Vaan

septem 'seven' [num. indecl.] (PL+) Derivatives: septemdecim 'seventeen' (P1-+), septimus 'seventh' (Naev.+), — [de Vaan, s.v. septem, p. 569]

2. septem — Lewis & Short

septem,

I num. adj. indecl. [Sanscr. saptan; Gr. e(pta/; Goth. sibun; Germ. sieben; Engl. seven], seven: septem menses sunt, quom, etc., Plaut. Most. 2, 2, 39: septem milia, id. Mil. 1, 1, 46: dis, quibus septem placuere colles, Hor. C. S. 7: septem et decem, Plaut. Cist. 4, 2, 89: decem et septem, Liv. 33, 21, 8; Plin. Ep. 2, 17, 2: decem septemque, Nep. Cato, 1, 2: decem septem, Liv. 24, 15, 2 Weissenb.; cf. Prisc. p. 1170 P.; v. also septendecim: septem et viginti minae, Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 94: septem et triginta annos, Cic. Rep. 2, 10, 17; Liv. 1, 21 fin.: sex aut septem loca, Lucr. 4, 577; also unconnected: illum his mensibus Sex septem non vidisse proximis, Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 40; so, sex septem, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 58.—With numerals: VI. VII. diebus, Cic. Att. 10, 8, 6 Orell. N. cr.: septem miracula, the seven wonders of the world, Plin. 36, 5, 4, § 30; Val. Max. 4, 6, 1 ext.; so, septem mira, Lact. 3, 24, 2: septem spectacula, Vitr. 2, 8, 11; cf. Gell. 10, 18, 4.—

II In partic.

A As subst., the seven sages of Greece: eos vero septem, quos Graeci sapientes nominaverunt, Cic. Rep. 1, 7, 12; id. Tusc. 5, 3, 7; id. Lael. 2, 7; id. de Or. 3, 34, 137; id. Fin. 2, 3, 7; id. Off. 3, 4, 16: qui (Bias) sapiens habitus est unus e septem, id. Lael. 16, 59: Thales, qui sapientissimus in septem fuit, id. Leg. 2, 11, 26.—

B Septem Aquae, a lake in the Reatine territory, Cic. Att. 4, 15, 5.—

C Septem Stellae, for septentriones, the seven-stars, the Pleiades, Sen. Troad. 443.—

D Septem Maria, the lagunes at the mouth of the Po, where Venice was afterwards founded, Plin. 3, 15, 16, § 119; Tac. H. 3, 9.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. septem (scan p. 569; entry #1598).
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. septem (scan p. 639; entry #10551).

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