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

• spumiest, stumpies

Latin

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Septimus (praenomen)

Wikipedia

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, volume 93, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 347–354