Interlingua

Numeral

novem

1. nine

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈno.wem/, [ˈnɔ.wẽ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈno.vem/, [ˈnɔː.vem], [ˈnɔː.vɛm]

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

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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “novem”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press

Etymology 2

From novō ‎(“renew, refresh”).

Verb

novem

1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of novō