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“seventh”
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01 / Meaning & origin
Septimus is a masculine given name documented in English and Latin. English Wiktionary traces it to Latin Septimus, with the stated meaning “seventh”.
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Meaning: “seventh”
Borrowed from Latin Septimus, from septimus (“seventh”).
From Proto-Italic *Septəmos, from *septəmos, from Proto-Indo-European *septm̥mós. Compare terms such as Quīntus or Sextus.
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SEPTIMUS— “seventh”
The Latin _septem_ gave Septimus, a name exceptionally used among them, as it is among us, for a seventh son.
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part IV, Chapter II (Latin Prænomina), Section V (Numeral Names) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
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