septingenti Latin · revision 33773

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la septem, la centum}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [sɛp.tɪŋˈɡɛn.tiː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [sep.tin̠ʲˈd͡ʒɛn.ti]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''septingentī''' (feminine septingentae, neuter septingenta); first/second-declension numeral, plural only^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|septem|centum|t1=seven|t2=hundred]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) De Vaan explains the form as a regular outcome of ⟨*septengentoi⟩, from [[ine-pro|*septm-dḱmt-oi]].^(de Vaan 2008) He traces [[m|la|septem]] to [[itc-pro|*septm̥]] and [[ine-pro|*septḿ̥|t=seven]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has it first,^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) of seven hundred coins in the ''Rudens''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is an ordinary numeral: Ennius speaks of seven hundred years, Cicero of seven hundred years of memory and of seven hundred miles, and Livy of seven hundred soldiers.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Pliny the Elder counts stadia with it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, of seven hundred coins.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 204–169 BC – Ennius, of seven hundred years.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of seven hundred years of memory.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Numeral===

+ # Seven [[m|en|hundred]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[septingēnī]]

+ * [[septingentēsimus]]

+ * [[septingenties]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[septem]]

+ * [[centum]]

+ * [[sescentī]]

+ * [[octingentī]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}