septuaginta Latin · revision 4256

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=inherited|attested=Varro|origins=ine-pro *septḿ̥}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [sɛp.tu.aːˈɡɪn.taː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [sep.tu.aˈd͡ʒin.ta]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''septuāgintā''' (indeclinable)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It continues [[ine-pro|*septm-dḱomt-|t=seven tens]], from [[ine-pro|*septḿ̥|t=seven]], the source of [[septem]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan explains the ''-ā-'' as taken from the other decades, such as [[sexaginta|alt=sexāgintā]], and the ''-u-'' as phonetic: [[m|itc-pro|*septmā-]] became [[m|itc-pro|*septumā-]] and then [[m|itc-pro|*septuwā-]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary) Cognate with [[grc|ἑβδομήκοντα|tr=hebdomḗkonta]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates the numeral from Varro onwards.^(de Vaan 2008) Köbler dates Varro 116–27 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is the indeclinable numeral seventy, as Cicero's ''centum septuāgintā'' and Nepos' seventy-seven years.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) An inscription has it scanned with a short final syllable, and another spells it ''septaginta''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ In Late Latin ''septuāgintā interpretēs'' “the seventy translators” named the translators of the Greek Old Testament, and then the version itself.^(Wiktionary) Gaffiot cites it from Eucherius.^(Gaffiot 2016) Wiktionary says the name rests on the probably mistaken story of 72 scholars working at Alexandria under Ptolemy II.^(Wiktionary) English ''Septuagint'' is recorded for the translators in the 1570s and for the Greek Old Testament in the 1630s.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses it.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it in counting.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 380–c. 450 AD – Eucherius speaks of the seventy translators.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1570s – English ''Septuagint'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Numeral===

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

+ # ''(Late Latin, capitalized)'' The translators of the [[m|en|Septuagint]]; the Septuagint itself.^(Wiktionary)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[septuāgēnī]]

+ * [[septuagesies]]

+ * [[septuāgēsimus]]

+ * [[septuāgiens,]]

+ * [[septuāgiēs]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[septem]]

+ * [[en|Septuagint]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}