September
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
| PIE word |
|---|
| *septḿ̥ |
From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#SEPTEMBERCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#SEPTEMBER, from late Old EnglishCategory:English terms derived from Old English#SEPTEMBER, from Old FrenchCategory:English terms derived from Old French#SEPTEMBER septembre, LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#SEPTEMBER September (“seventh month”), from septem (“seven”), from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#SEPTEMBER *septḿ̥ (“seven”); + LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#SEPTEMBER -ber, from -bris, an adjectival suffix; September was the seventh month in the Roman calendar.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: sĕp-tĕmʹbə, səp- IPA(key): /sɛpˈtɛmbə/, /səpˈtɛmbə/Category:English 3-syllable words#SEPTEMBERCategory:English 3-syllable words#SEPTEMBERCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#SEPTEMBER
- (US) enPR: sĕp-tĕmʹbər, səp- IPA(key): /sɛpˈtɛmbɚ/, /səpˈtɛmbɚ/Category:English 3-syllable words#SEPTEMBERCategory:English 3-syllable words#SEPTEMBERCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#SEPTEMBER
Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#SEPTEMBERAudio (US): (file) - (Indic) IPA(key): /ˈsɛpʈəmbə(ɾ)/Category:English 3-syllable words#SEPTEMBERCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#SEPTEMBER
- Rhymes: -ɛmbə(ɹ)Category:Rhymes:English/ɛmbə(ɹ)#SEPTEMBERCategory:Rhymes:English/ɛmbə(ɹ)/3 syllables#SEPTEMBER
Proper noun
September (plural Septembers)Category:English lemmas#SEPTEMBERCategory:English proper nouns#SEPTEMBERCategory:English countable nouns#SEPTEMBERCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#SEPTEMBERCategory:Pages with entries#SEPTEMBERCategory:Pages with 12 entries#SEPTEMBER
- The ninth month of the Gregorian calendar, following August and preceding October, containing the southward equinox.
- Alternative forms: Sep, Sep., SEP; Sept, Sept., 7ber; 9
- Synonym: (Quakerism) Ninth Month
- Holonyms: calendar year; year
- Comeronyms: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, October, November, December
- Late September is a beautiful time of year.Category:English terms with usage examples#SEPTEMBER
- This was one of the warmest Septembers on record.Category:English terms with usage examples#SEPTEMBER
- 2024 November 24, Chris Boyette, “Investigators release update on BioLab chemical plant fire probe”, in CNN, archived from the original on 30 August 2025:
- BioLab officials told the investigators they had established a permanent fire watch two or three months prior to the incident after strong odors from oxidizers in two storage buildings were detected, according to the CSB report. BioLab also told CSB two employees were on duty for fire watch on September 29.Category:English terms with quotations#SEPTEMBER
- (rareCategory:English terms with rare senses#SEPTEMBER) Celi, Roman goddess of September
- (rareCategory:English terms with rare senses#SEPTEMBER) A female or male given name transferred from the month name [in turn from English]Category:English given names#SEPTEMBERCategory:English female given names#SEPTEMBERCategory:English female given names from month names#SEPTEMBERCategory:English female given names from English#SEPTEMBERCategory:English male given names#SEPTEMBERCategory:English male given names from month names#SEPTEMBERCategory:English male given names from English#SEPTEMBER.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:September.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- Endless September
- eternal September
- Eternal September
- May-September romance
- mid-September
- Never-Ending September
- Neverending September
- never-ending September
- Never Ending September
- neverending September
- never ending September
- September call-up
- Septembered
- September eleventh
- September elm
- Septemberer
- September GroupCategory:English links with redundant wikilinks#SEPTEMBERCategory:English links with redundant alt parameters#SEPTEMBER
- Septemberish
- Septemberism
- Septemberly
- September MassacresCategory:English links with redundant wikilinks#SEPTEMBERCategory:English links with redundant alt parameters#SEPTEMBER
- September people
- September That Never Ended
- September that never ended
- September that Never Ended
- September thorn
- September which never ended
- Septembery
- Septembrian
- Septembrish
- Septembrist
Related terms
Descendants
- Bislama: septemba
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: Septemba
- Tok Pisin: Septemba
- → Bengali: সেপ্টেম্বর (śepṭembor)
- → Chichewa: Sepitembala
- → Dari: سپتمبر (septembar)
- → Hausa: Satumba
- → Hawaiian: Kepakemapa
- → Hindi: सितंबर (sitambar)
- → Malay: September
- → Māori: Hepetema
- → Marshallese: Jeptōm̧ba, Jebtōm̧ba
- → Swahili: Septemba
- → Tokelauan: Hetema
- → Tongan: Sēpitema
Translations
See also
Anagrams
Category:English unisex given names#SEPTEMBER Category:en:Months#SEPTEMBERCategory:en:Seven#SEPTEMBERAfrikaans
Pronunciation
Noun
September (plural Septembermaande)Category:Afrikaans lemmas#SEPTEMBERCategory:Afrikaans nouns#SEPTEMBERCategory:Afrikaans entries with incorrect language header#SEPTEMBERCategory:Pages with entries#SEPTEMBERCategory:Pages with 12 entries#SEPTEMBER
See also
Ewe
Etymology
Borrowed from GermanCategory:Ewe terms borrowed from German#SEPTEMBERCategory:Ewe terms derived from German#SEPTEMBER September.
Proper noun
SeptemberCategory:Ewe lemmas#SEPTEMBERCategory:Ewe proper nouns#SEPTEMBERCategory:Ewe entries with incorrect language header#SEPTEMBERCategory:Pages with entries#SEPTEMBERCategory:Pages with 12 entries#SEPTEMBER
See also
German
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Middle High German september.
Category:German terms derived from Proto-Italic#SEPTEMBERCategory:German terms derived from Middle High German#SEPTEMBERCategory:German terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#SEPTEMBERCategory:German terms derived from Latin#SEPTEMBERCategory:German terms derived from Proto-Afroasiatic#SEPTEMBERCategory:German terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *septḿ̥#SEPTEMBERCategory:German terms derived from Proto-Semitic#SEPTEMBERCategory:German terms inherited from Middle High German#SEPTEMBERCategory:German entries with etymology texts#SEPTEMBERPronunciation
Noun
September m (strong, genitive Septembers or September, plural September)Category:German lemmas#SEPTEMBERCategory:German nouns#SEPTEMBERCategory:German entries with incorrect language header#SEPTEMBERCategory:German masculine nouns#SEPTEMBERCategory:Pages with entries#SEPTEMBERCategory:Pages with 12 entries#SEPTEMBER
Declension
Coordinate terms
Descendants
- → Estonian: september
- → Hebrew: סֶפְּטֶמְבֶּר (septémber)
- → Hunsrik: September
- → Kashubian: zeptember
Further reading
- “September” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “September” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “September” in Duden online
September on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
Hunsrik
Etymology
Borrowed from German September.Category:Hunsrik terms derived from Proto-Afroasiatic#SEPTEMBERCategory:Hunsrik terms derived from German#SEPTEMBERCategory:Hunsrik terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#SEPTEMBERCategory:Hunsrik terms derived from Proto-Italic#SEPTEMBERCategory:Hunsrik terms derived from Middle High German#SEPTEMBERCategory:Hunsrik terms borrowed from German#SEPTEMBERCategory:Hunsrik terms derived from Latin#SEPTEMBERCategory:Hunsrik terms derived from Proto-Semitic#SEPTEMBERCategory:Hunsrik terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *septḿ̥#SEPTEMBERCategory:Hunsrik entries with etymology texts#SEPTEMBER[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
September m (plural September)Category:Hunsrik lemmas#SEPTEMBERCategory:Hunsrik nouns#SEPTEMBERCategory:Hunsrik entries with incorrect language header#SEPTEMBERCategory:Hunsrik masculine nouns#SEPTEMBERCategory:Pages with entries#SEPTEMBERCategory:Pages with 12 entries#SEPTEMBER
- September
- Im September rehnd’s immer fiel.
- It always rains a lot in September.
See also
References
- ↑ Boll, Piter Kehoma (2021), “September”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português, 3rd edition (overall work in Portuguese), Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch, page 150, column 1
Indonesian
Alternative forms
Etymology
Category:Indonesian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#SEPTEMBERFrom DutchCategory:Indonesian terms borrowed from Dutch#SEPTEMBERCategory:Indonesian terms derived from Dutch#SEPTEMBER september, from LatinCategory:Indonesian terms derived from Latin#SEPTEMBER September (“seventh month”).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /sepˈtembər/ [sep̚ˈt̪em.bər]Category:Indonesian 3-syllable words#SEPTEMBERCategory:Indonesian terms with IPA pronunciation#SEPTEMBER
- Rhymes: -embərCategory:Rhymes:Indonesian/embər#SEPTEMBERCategory:Rhymes:Indonesian/embər/3 syllables#SEPTEMBER
- Syllabification: Sep‧tem‧ber
Proper noun
SeptembêrCategory:Indonesian lemmas#SEPTEMBERCategory:Indonesian proper nouns#SEPTEMBERCategory:Indonesian entries with incorrect language header#SEPTEMBERCategory:Pages with entries#SEPTEMBERCategory:Pages with 12 entries#SEPTEMBER
Coordinate terms
Further reading
- “September”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
By haplology from earlier *septemo-mēmbris (“of or pertaining to the seventh month”), from Proto-ItalicCategory:Latin terms inherited from Proto-Italic#SEPTEMBERCategory:Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic#SEPTEMBER *septemo-mēnzris, from septem (“seven”) + *mēnsris, from mens- (“month”) + -ris. In the Roman calendar, the year began with Mārtius (“March”), and September was the seventh month of the year.
Pronunciation
Adjective
September (feminine Septembris)Category:Latin lemmas#SEPTEMBERCategory:Latin adjectives#SEPTEMBERCategory:Latin third declension adjectives#SEPTEMBERCategory:Latin third declension adjectives of three terminations#SEPTEMBERCategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#SEPTEMBERCategory:Pages with entries#SEPTEMBERCategory:Pages with 12 entries#SEPTEMBER; third-declension three-termination adjective
- of September
- 106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Letters to Atticus I.1.10:
- cum Romae a iudiciis forum refrixerit, excurremus mense Septembri legati ad Pisonem, ut ianuario revertamur.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- cum Romae a iudiciis forum refrixerit, excurremus mense Septembri legati ad Pisonem, ut ianuario revertamur.
Usage notes
In Classical Latin, month names were regularly used as adjectives, generally modifying a case-form of mēnsis m sg (“month”) or of one of the nouns used in the Roman calendar to refer to specific days of the month from which other days were counted: kalendae f pl (“calends”), nōnae f pl (“nones”), īdūs f pl (“ides”). However, the masculine noun mēnsis could be omitted by ellipsis, so the masculine singular forms of month names eventually came to be used as proper nouns.[1]
The accusative plural adjective forms Aprīlīs, Septembrīs, Octōbrīs, Novembrīs, Decembrīs[2] are ambiguous in writing, being spelled identically to the genitive singular forms of the nouns; nevertheless, the use of ablative singular forms in -ī and comparison with the usage of other month names as adjectives supports the interpretation of -is as an accusative plural adjective ending in Classical Latin phrases such as "kalendas Septembris".[3]
Declension
Third-declension three-termination adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | masculine | feminine | ||
| nominative | September | Septembris | Septembrēs | Septembrēs | |
| genitive | Septembris | Septembris | Septembrium | Septembrium | |
| dative | Septembrī | Septembrī | Septembribus | Septembribus | |
| accusative | Septembrem | Septembrem | Septembrēs Septembrīs |
Septembrēs Septembrīs | |
| ablative | Septembrī | Septembrī | Septembribus | Septembribus | |
| vocative | September | Septembris | Septembrēs | Septembrēs | |
- In medieval and New Latin, the ablative singular can also be found as Septembre.
Proper noun
September m sg (genitive Septembris)Category:Latin lemmas#SEPTEMBERCategory:Latin proper nouns#SEPTEMBERCategory:Latin third declension nouns#SEPTEMBERCategory:Latin masculine nouns in the third declension#SEPTEMBERCategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#SEPTEMBERCategory:Latin masculine nouns#SEPTEMBERCategory:Pages with entries#SEPTEMBERCategory:Pages with 12 entries#SEPTEMBER; third declension
- September
- 1938 [1108], “Ad Thomam electum archiepiscopum Eboracensem”, in S. Anselmi cantuariensis archiepiscopi opera omnia, volume 5th, page 390:
- Mando itaque vobis, ut octavo Idus Septembris sitis apud matrem vestram ecclesiam Cantuariensem, ad faciendum quod facere debetis, et ad suspiciendam consecrationem vestram.Category:Latin terms with quotations#SEPTEMBERCategory:Requests for translations of Latin quotations#SEPTEMBER
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
Third-declension noun, singular only.
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | September |
| genitive | Septembris |
| dative | Septembrī |
| accusative | Septembrem |
| ablative | Septembre |
| vocative | September |
- In medieval and New Latin, the ablative singular can also be found as Septembre.
Descendants
- Franco-Provençal: septembro
- Gallo-Italic
- Italo-Dalmatian
- Old French: setembre, sietembre, septembre, septenbre
- Old Occitan:
- Rhaeto-Romance
- Venetan: setenbre
- West Iberian
- → Ancient Greek: Σεπτέμβριος (Septémbrios) (see there for further descendants)
- → French: septembre, sept. (abbreviation)
- → Middle High German: september, ougste, oust, ouwest, owest
- Alemannic German: Septämber
- Bavarian: Septemba
- Central Franconian:
- Kölsch: Sepptämmber
- Luxembourgish: September
- Cimbrian: septembar, septembre (Luserna)
- German: September, Sep. (abbreviation)
- → Estonian: september
- → Hebrew: סֶפְּטֶמְבֶּר (septémber)
- → Hunsrik: September
- → Kashubian: zeptember
- Pennsylvania German: September
- Yiddish: סעפּטעמבער (september)
- → Norman:
- → Albanian: shtator (calque)
- →? Albanian: britm
- → Cimbrian: zibante maanont (calque)
- Unsorted borrowings
These borrowings are ultimately but perhaps not directly from Latin. They are organized into geographical and language family groups, not by etymology.
- Africa
- Northern and Horn
- Amharic: ሰፕቴምበር (säptembär)
- Egyptian Arabic: سبتمبر (septamber)
- Kabyle: ctember
- Somali: Septeembar
- Subsaharan
- Ewe: September
- Igbo: Septemba
- Malagasy: Septambra
- Tumbuka: seputembala
- Wolof: Sattumbar
- Northern and Horn
- Americas
- Greenlandic: septembari
- Inuktitut: ᓯᑎᒻᐳᕆ (sitimpori)
- Asia and Oceania
- Central and Western Asia
- South Asia
- Assamese: ছেপ্টেম্বৰ (septembor)
- Dhivehi: ސެޕްޓެމްބަރު (sepṭem̊baru)
- Kannada: ಸೆಪ್ಟೆಂಬರ್ (sepṭembar)
- Malayalam: സെപ്റ്റംബർ (sepṟṟambaṟ)
- Odia: ସେପ୍ଟେମ୍ବର (sepṭembara)
- Pashto: ستمبر (setámbr), سپتامبر (septãmbár), سپتمبر (septambár)
- Sinhalese: සැප්තැම්බර් (sæptæmbar)
- Tamil: செப்டம்பர் (cepṭampar)
- Telugu: సెప్టెంబరు (sepṭembaru)
- Southeast Asia and Oceania
- Europe
- Basque: setemere
- Hungarian: szeptember
- Baltic
- Latvian: septembris
- Livonian: septembõr
- Germanic
- Danish: september
- Dutch: september, sep (abbreviation)
- Dutch Low Saxon: september
- Faroese: september
- German Low German: September
- Icelandic: september
- Limburgish: septèmber
- North Frisian: september, septämber
- Norwegian: september
- Saterland Frisian: September
- Swedish: september
- West Flemish: september
- West Frisian: septimber
- Dalecarlian: ᛁᛆᚠᛐᛆᛘᛒᛆᚱ, ᛌᛆᚠᛐᛘᛒᚱ (seftember)
- Slavic
See also
- Roman calendar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
- ↑ Karl Gottlob Zumpt (1853), Leonhard Schmitz, Charles Anthon, transl., A Grammar of the Latin Language, 3rd edition, pages 31, 85
- ↑ Gaeng, Paul A. (1968), An Inquiry into Local Variations in Vulgar Latin: As Reflected in the Vocalism of Christian Inscriptions, page 183
- ↑ Frost, P. (1861), The Germania and Agricola of Tacitus, page 161
Further reading
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- on the day after, which was September 5th: postridie qui fuit dies Non. Sept. (Nonarum Septembrium) (Att. 4. 1. 5)
- on the day after, which was September 5th: postridie qui fuit dies Non. Sept. (Nonarum Septembrium) (Att. 4. 1. 5)
Luxembourgish
Pronunciation
Proper noun
September mCategory:Luxembourgish lemmas#SEPTEMBERCategory:Luxembourgish proper nouns#SEPTEMBERCategory:Luxembourgish entries with incorrect language header#SEPTEMBERCategory:Luxembourgish masculine nouns#SEPTEMBERCategory:Pages with entries#SEPTEMBERCategory:Pages with 12 entries#SEPTEMBER
See also
Malay
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from EnglishCategory:Malay terms borrowed from English#SEPTEMBERCategory:Malay terms derived from English#SEPTEMBER September, from late Old EnglishCategory:Malay terms derived from Old English#SEPTEMBER, LatinCategory:Malay terms derived from Latin#SEPTEMBER September, from septem, from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:Malay terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#SEPTEMBER *septḿ̥.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
September (Jawi spelling سيڤتيمبر)Category:Malay lemmas#SEPTEMBERCategory:Malay proper nouns#SEPTEMBERCategory:Malay entries with incorrect language header#SEPTEMBERCategory:Pages with entries#SEPTEMBERCategory:Pages with 12 entries#SEPTEMBER
- September (ninth month of the Gregorian calendar)
See also
Further reading
- "September" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017
North Frisian
Alternative forms
Etymology
Ultimately from LatinCategory:North Frisian terms derived from Latin#SEPTEMBER september.
Noun
September mCategory:North Frisian lemmas#SEPTEMBERCategory:North Frisian nouns#SEPTEMBERCategory:North Frisian entries with incorrect language header#SEPTEMBERCategory:North Frisian masculine nouns#SEPTEMBERCategory:Pages with entries#SEPTEMBERCategory:Pages with 12 entries#SEPTEMBER
Category:frr:Months#SEPTEMBERCategory:frr:Time#SEPTEMBEROld English
Etymology
Borrowed from LatinCategory:Old English terms borrowed from Latin#SEPTEMBERCategory:Old English terms derived from Latin#SEPTEMBER September
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsep.tem.ber/Category:Old English terms with IPA pronunciation#SEPTEMBER
Noun
September mCategory:Old English lemmas#SEPTEMBERCategory:Old English nouns#SEPTEMBERCategory:Old English entries with incorrect language header#SEPTEMBERCategory:Old English masculine nouns#SEPTEMBERCategory:Pages with entries#SEPTEMBERCategory:Pages with 12 entries#SEPTEMBER
- September
- Synonym: hāliġmōnaþ
Declension
Strong a-stem:
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | September | — |
| accusative | September | — |
| genitive | septembres | — |
| dative | septembre | — |
See also
Scots
Etymology
From LatinCategory:Scots terms derived from Latin#SEPTEMBER September (“of the seventh month”).
Proper noun
SeptemberCategory:Scots lemmas#SEPTEMBERCategory:Scots proper nouns#SEPTEMBERCategory:Scots entries with incorrect language header#SEPTEMBERCategory:Pages with entries#SEPTEMBERCategory:Pages with 12 entries#SEPTEMBER