numeral
novem
novem (indeclinable)
Classical[ˈnɔ.wẽː]Ecclesiastical[ˈnɔː.vem]
Mille Verba core vocabulary
Meaning
- indeclinablenine; 9
perque novem luces expers undaeque cibique rore mero lacrimisque suis ieiunia pavit
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.8 CE, Ovidius, Metamorphoses 4.262–264per 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.397 CE – 401 CE, Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis, Confessiones 4.1.1
nŏvem,
I. num. adj. card. [kindred to Sanscr. navan; Gr. ἐννέα; Germ. neun; Engl. nine], nine:
novem orbibus, Cic. Rep. 6, 17, 17: sermo in novem et libros et dies distributus, id. Q. Fr. 3, 5, 1: milia passuum decem novem, nineteen, Caes. B. G. 1, 8.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
novem or VIIII or IX
num, nine: novem orbibus: milia passuum decem novem (i. e. undeviginti), Cs.: ix solis diebus: viiii tribūs.
Origins
From *noven (influenced by decem, original form preserved in nōnus < *h₁newnos), from Proto-Italic *nown̥, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥. Cognates include Sanskrit नव (náva), Ancient Greek ἐννέα (ennéa), Gothic 𐌽𐌹𐌿𐌽 (niun) and Old English nigon (English nine).
Insular Romance
- Sardiniannoe
- Sardiniannoi
Southern Gallo-Romance
- Catalannou
- Occitannòu
- Gasconnaufrom Occitan nòu
Ibero-Romance
- Portuguesenovefrom Old Galician-Portuguese nove
- Spanishnuevefrom Old Spanish nueve
- Aragonesenueu
- Aragonesenueve
- Aragonesenou
- Falanovifrom Old Galician-Portuguese nove
- Galiciannovefrom Old Galician-Portuguese nove
- Kadiwéunoovefrom Old Galician-Portuguese nove
- Kadiwéunoobefrom Old Galician-Portuguese nove
- Macanesenóvifrom Old Galician-Portuguese nove
Balkano-Romance
- Romaniannouă
- Aromaniannoauã
- Aromaniannauã
- Aromaniannau
- Aromaniannoau
- Megleno-Romaniannoauă
Italo-Dalmatian
- Italiannove
- Galluresenoifrom Corsican nove
- Sassaresenobifrom Corsican nove
- Dalmatiannu
- Istriotgnove
- Tarantinonôvefrom Neapolitan nove
- Siciliannovi
- Venetannove
Northern Gallo-Romance
- Frenchneuffrom Old French nuef
- Franco-Provençalnôf
- Normanneuffrom Old French nuef
- Walloonnoûffrom Old French nuef
Rhaeto-Romance
- Friuliannûf
- Ladinnuef
- Romanshnov
- Romanshnouv
Gallo-Italic
- Emiliannôv
- Ligurianneuve
- Lombardnöv
- Piedmonteseneuv
- Romagnolnöv
In English words that came into English from novem
- NovemberNovember
- novenanovēna
- novendialnovendiālis
- novenarynovenarius
- novenenovenus
- novemfidnovemfidus
- novemvigintillionnovem