different between saeptum vs septum

English

Noun

saeptum (plural saepta)

1. Obsolete spelling of septum.

Anagrams

• Paestum, steam up

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?sae?p.tum/, [?s?äe?pt????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?sep.tum/, [?s?pt?um]

Etymology 1

From saeptus, perfect passive participle of saepi? (“to surround, to enclose”).

Alternative forms

• sæptum, s?ptum

Noun

saeptum n (genitive saept?); second declension

1. A fence, enclosure, wall.

2. Any enclosed place, an enclosure.
   1. A fold for cattle.
   2. A fish-pond or preserve.
   3. (in the plural) An enclosed place in the Campus Martius, where the people assembled to vote.
3. Anything used for enclosing:
   1. A palisade, stake, pale.
   2. A sluice, floodgate.
   3. (anatomy) The diaphragm, midriff.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Descendants

• Portuguese: seto, septo
• Spanish: seto

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

saeptum

1. nominative neuter singular supine of saepi?

Participle

saeptum

1. inflection of saeptus:
   1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
   2. accusative masculine singular

References

• saeptum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• saeptum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Alternative forms

• saeptum, sæptum (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin s?ptum (“enclosure, wall, fence”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?p.t?m/
• Rhymes: -?pt?m

Noun

septum (plural septa)

1. (biology) A wall separating two cavities; a partition.

   Synonym: dissepiment

   1. (anatomy) Ellipsis of nasal septum: the cartilaginous center wall of the nose separating the two nostrils.
   2. (anatomy) Either of the two walls that separate the atria or ventricles of the heart into left and right chambers.
   3. (botany) A partition that separates the cells of a fruit.
   4. (mycology) A partition that separates the cells of a (septated) fungus.
   5. (zoology) One of the radial calcareous plates of a coral.
   6. (zoology) One of the transverse partitions dividing the shell of a mollusk, or of a rhizopod, into several chambers.
   7. (zoology) One of the transverse partitions dividing the body cavity of an annelid.
2. (colloquial) Ellipsis of septum ring or septum piercing.

Hyponyms

• nasal septum
• interventricular septum
• septum pellucidum

Derived terms

Translations

References

• “septum”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “septum”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Anagrams

• spetum

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?se?p.tum/, [?s?e?pt????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?sep.tum/, [?s?pt?um]

Noun

s?ptum n (genitive s?pt?); second declension

1. Alternative form of saeptum.

Descendants

? English: septum