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Latin
Noun
septuplum n (genitive septuplī); second declension
- septuple
- seven times as much
c. 254 CE, Origen,
Translatio Homiliarum in Ieremiam et Ezechielem :
- Ergo mors Jesu Christi, spica frumenti facta est, septuplum et multo amplius restituens quam fuerat seminatum.
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
References
- “septuplum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- septuplum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.