novem

Interlingua

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈno.vem/

Numeral

novem

  1. nine

Latin

Latin cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : novem
    Ordinal : nōnus
    Adverbial : noviēs
    Distributive : novēnī
Latin Wikipedia article on novem

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈno.wem/, [ˈnɔ.wẽ]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈno.vem/, [ˈnoː.vem]
  • Audio (Classical)(file)

Etymology 1

For *noven (contaminated by decem, original form preserved in nōnus < *h₁newn̥os), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥. Cognates include Sanskrit नवन् (navan), Ancient Greek ἐννέα (ennéa) and Old English niġon (English nine).

Numeral

novem (indeclinable)

  1. (cardinal) 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.
    • 405, Jerome and others, Vulgate, 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
Alternative forms
  • Symbol: IX
Derived terms
Descendants
See also
  • Appendix:Latin cardinal numerals

Etymology 2

From novō (“renew, refresh”).

Verb

novem

  1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of novō

References

  • 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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