septenarius

Learned borrowing from Latin septēnārius (“a verse having seven metrical feet”), nominalized from the masculine forms of septēnārius (“septenary”).^[1] Doublet of septenar and septenary.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌsɛp.təˈnɛəɹi.əs/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌsɛp.təˈnɛɹi.əs/
• Rhymes: -ɛəɹi.əs

septenarius (plural septenarii)

1. (prosody) A verse having seven metrical feet.

   Synonyms: heptapody, septenar

   Coordinate terms: quaternarius, senarius, octonarius

• interpauses, resupinates

From septēnus (“seven each”, distributive numeral) +‎ -ārius.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [sɛp.teːˈnaː.ri.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [sep.teˈnaː.ri.us]

septēnārius (feminine septēnāria, neuter septēnārium); first/second-declension adjective

1. containing or consisting of seven things (e.g., metrical feet)
2. septenary
3. (nominalized, masculine, prosody) ellipsis of septēnārius versus: a septenarius

   Coordinate terms: quaternārius, sēnārius, octōnārius

First/second-declension adjective.

• “septenarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “septenarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "septenarius", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “septenarius”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.