Some words with the prefix octa- are octagon, octahedron, octaves, octane, and octarchy. The prefix has the meaning of eight. For example, an octagon is an eight-sided polygon, and an octarchy is a government run by eight people.
"Octa" is derived from the Greek word meaning eight, "Octo". Any word beginning with "Octa", describes something which includes eight (8) of something, such as "octagon" is a structure or box having eight sides, or octagenerian is a person who is eighty years old.
Words that comes from 'septem' (Latin for seven) include September, septennial, septet, and septanarty. Look up 'sept' in an actual dictionary for more.
Almost every word that means eight but not all that being with Octo or Oct mean eight.. Octogon, Octapus, October and so on and so forth.
well, octo means 8.
So a few derivitives I can think of would be Octopus(eight legs), Octogenerian (80 year old person), octave (8 musical notes).
Septem is a word meaning "seventh." A derivative is September; until 46 BC, September was the seventh month.
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The Latin word for seven is: septem.
It means seven. It is the beginning of the word September. September is a proper noun; septem is not.
The most common is "fidelity".
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September, from the Latin 'septem'.
The Latin word for 7 is 'septem' and as a Roman numeral it is VII
The derivatives for the Latin word "simia" include "simian" in English and "singe" in French.
numerus : total, category, class, number(http://www.math.ubc.ca/~cass/frivs/latin/latin-dict-full.html)
The adjectives "classic" and "classical" are English derivatives of the Latin adjective "classicus." Another derivative is the noun "classicism." The Latin root word "classicus" has the original meaning of "relating to the classes into which the Roman citizens were divided."
Some derivatives are aqueous, aquaduct, aquifer.
The derivatives of the Latin word "vale" include "valeo" meaning "to be strong" or "to be well" and "valediction" meaning "a farewell."