septendecimal
Relating to or based on the number 17Relating to or based on the number 17.
Meaning
2 senses(not comparable)Relating to or based on the number 17.
(not comparable)Of or relating to a seventeenth.
Origin
From Latin septendecim (“seventeen”) + -al, after decimal. By surface analysis, septen- +From Latin septendecim (“seventeen”) + -al, after decimal. By surface analysis, septen- + decimal.
From Latin septendecimus + -al (after English seventeenth and decimal), from septendecim (“seventeen”), after decimus (“tenth”). Compare Latin septimusdecimus (“seventeenth”). By surface analysis, septen- + decimal. Coined by English mathematician, philologist and musician Alexander John Ellis in 1885 (see the quotation).
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