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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Titera's Tidbit: Greed
"Greed" is one of the few words to enter English from the Gothic language, which was spoken in scattered pockets of eastern and nothern Europe until the ninth century. Its original form, gredas, meant "hunger", a sense that later came to be applied to a kind of insatiable hunger of the soul.


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