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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
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).
Numeral
novem (indeclinable)
- 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
Descendants
- Balkan Romance:
- Dalmatian:
- Italo-Romance:
- North Italian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Occitano-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Insular Romance:
Etymology 2
From novō (“renew, refresh”).
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