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novem

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novem

  1. nine

Latin

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Latin numbers (edit)
90
 ←  8 IX
9 		10  → [a], [b]
    Cardinal: novem
    Ordinal: nōnus
    Adverbial: noviēs, noviēns
    Proportional: nōnuplus, nōncuplus, novemcuplus, novemplus, nocuplus, nuncuplus, noccuplus
    Multiplier: novemplex, nōncuplex, nōnuplex, novemcuplex
    Distributive: novēnus
    Fractional: nōnus
 
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Etymology 1

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    For *noven (contaminated by decem, original form preserved in nōnus < *h₁newnos), from Proto-Italic *nowem, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥. Cognates include Sanskrit नवन् (navan), Ancient Greek ἐννέα (ennéa), Gothic 𐌽𐌹𐌿𐌽 (niun) and Old English nigon (English nine).

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    • Symbol: IX

    Numeral

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    novem (indeclinable)

    1. nine; 9
      • 8 CE, Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.262–264:
        perque novem luces expers undaeque cibique
        rore mero lacrimisque suis ieiunia pavit
        nec se movit humo
        For nine whole days she sat, tasting neither drink nor food,
        her hunger fed by naught save pure dew and tears,
        and moved not from the ground.
      • 397 CE – 401 CE, Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis, Confessions 4.1.1:
        per idem tempus annorum novem, ab undevicensimo anno aetatis meae usque ad duodetricensimum, seducebamur et seducebamus
        During this period of nine years, from my nineteenth year to my twenty-eighth, I went astray and led others astray.
      • Late 4th century, Jerome [et al.], transl., edited by Roger Gryson, Biblia Sacra: Iuxta Vulgatam Versionem (Vulgate), 5th edition, Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, published 2007, →ISBN, Iosue 13:7:
        et nunc divide terram in possessionem novem tribubus et dimidiae tribui Manasse
        Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance unto the nine tribes, and the half tribe of Manasseh
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    Etymology 2

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    From novō (“renew, refresh”).

    Verb

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    novem

    1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of novō

    References

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    • “novem”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “novem”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • novem in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
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