Septimus

See also: septimus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Septimus, from septimus (seventh).

Proper noun

Septimus

  1. A male given name from Latin.
    • 1925, Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway, Collector's Library, published 2003, →ISBN, page 95:
      London has swallowed up many millions of young men called Smith ; thought nothing of fantastic Christian names like Septimus with which their parents have thought to distinguish them .

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *Septəmos, from *septəmos, from Proto-Indo-European *septm̥mós. Compare terms such as Quīntus or Sextus.

Proper noun

Septimus m sg (genitive Septimī); second declension

  1. (rare) A masculine praenomen
  2. (rare) a Roman cognomen

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

singular
nominative Septimus
genitive Septimī
dative Septimō
accusative Septimum
ablative Septimō
vocative Septime

Descendants

  • English: Septimus

References

  • Septimus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Petersen, Hans (1962), “The Numeral Praenomina of the Romans”, in Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association[1], volume 93, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 347–354