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Middle English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin septentriō, septentriōnem. Compare Modern English septentrion.
Noun
septemtrioun
- septentrion
1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Monkes Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, ,
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William Thynne], editor,
The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, ,
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Richard Grafton for]
Iohn Reynes ,
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2467:
- 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer Boece, Book II
And ek this Nero governyde by ceptre alle the peples that ben undir the colde sterres that highten the septemtryones. (This is to seyn he governede alle the peples that ben under the partye of the north.)- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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