| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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Appendix I
Indo-European Roots |
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| ENTRY: | sept |
| DEFINITION: | Seven. 1. seven; seventeen, seventy, from Old English seofon, seven, with derivatives (hund)seofontig, seventy, and seofont ne, seventeen (-tne, ten; see dek), from Germanic *sebum. 2. September, septennial, septet, Septuagint, septuple; septentrion, from Latin septem, seven. 3. hebdomad, hepta-, heptad, from Greek hepta, seven. (Pokorny sept 909.) |
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