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: Opium
In ancient Greek, any sort of sap or vegetable juice was called opos. The particularly resinous poppy the grew in Greek-speaking Anatolia, what is now Turkey, was called opion, which yielded the Latin word opiatus, "that which puts to sleep", and the English word "opium".

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