septuennis

• septennis

From septem (“seven”) +‎ annus (“year”) +‎ -is (forming compound adjectives).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [sɛp.tuˈɛn.nɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [sep.tuˈɛn.nis]

septuennis (neuter septuenne); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. 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.

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   • 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.

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2. of six years, lasting six years

   Synonym: septennālis

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Third-declension two-termination adjective.

• “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.