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: Internecine
This learned word, which almost always modifies "struggle", originally meant "fought to the death" or "exceptionally murderous". When the great dictionary maker Samuel Johnson examined it, though, he mistakenly concluded that the inter- element meant "between", as in a struggle that is mutually destructive. The word has that sense today.

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