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Latin
Etymology
From septem + -plus; compare septemplex.
Numeral
septemplus (feminine septempla, neuter septemplum); first/second-declension numeral
- (dubious or rare) Alternative form of septuplus.
1375 – 1376, John Wyclif,
Tractatus de mandatis divinis (one manuscript) :
[1]- et Ysaie XXX, 26 dicitur: Tunc luna fulgebit sicut sol, et sol septemplum, sicut lux septem dierum.
Usage notes
Other manuscripts of Wyclif have septipliciter, septempliciter, or septupliciter instead of "septemplum" here.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- ^ John Wyclif (1922) Johannis Wyclif Tractatus de mandatis divinis accedit Tractatus de statu innocencie: Now first edited from the manuscripts with critical and historical notes and with an appendix De differentia inter peccatum mortale et veniale by Dr. Johann Loserth and F. D. Matthew, page 149
Further reading
- Αναστάσιος Παλλατίδης (1834) Γραμματική Λατινική. : Διὰ τὴν Ἑλληνικὴν Νεολαίαν φιλοπονηθεῖσα καὶ εκδοθεῖσα ὑπὸ Α. Π. Ι., page 60: “7 septemplus, a, um.”
- Albert M. Gessman (1970) The Tongue of the Romans: Introduction to the History of Latin and the Romance Languages, Studia Antiqua Press, page 163: “'double' = 'du-pl-us', then 'tri-pl-us', 'quadr-ū-pl-us', 'quīnqu-ī-pl-us' (later, following 'quadrūplus', 'quincūplus' and still later, under the influence of 'quīntus', even 'quīntūplus'), 'sescūplus', 'septemplus', 'octōplus', 'novemplus', 'decemplus'.”