In Latin, septem means "seven" and septimus means "seventh"; September was in fact the seventh month of the Roman calendar until 153 BC, when the first month changed from Kalendas Martius (1 March) to Kalendas Januarius (1 January).

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In the Celtic languages, a lausa is a stone, as in the Gaulish word lausiae, meaning slabs of stone. The word came into Latin with the meaning "shaped like a stone", which gave rise to its current medical use as a stone-shaped object filled with medicine.

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