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- Latin · borrowed fromsēptum“enclosure, wall, fence”
- English todayseptum
Borrowed from Latin sēptum (“enclosure, wall, fence”).
Words from the same roots
Latinsēptum all →
septulum
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
septum
Today it means: Either of the two walls that separate the atria or ventricles of the heart into left and right chambers. Full definition →
Latin sēptum