septum

• saeptum
• sæptum

From Latin sēptum, alternative form of saeptum (“enclosure, hedge, fence”), from saeptus, perfect passive participle of saepiō (“hedge in, enclose”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛptəm/

septum (plural septa or septums or septae)

1. (anatomy) A wall separating two cavities; a partition
   1. The cartilaginous center wall of the nose separating the two nostrils.
      • 2002, Springhouse, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Illustrated Manual of Nursing Practice, page 1158

        Deviated septum, a shift from the midline that commonly occurs in normal growth, is present in most adults.

2. (botany) A partition that separates the cells of a fruit.
3. (mycology) A partition that separates the cells of a (septated) fungus.
4. (zoology) One of the radial calcareous plates of a coral.
5. (zoology) One of the transverse partitions dividing the shell of a mollusk, or of a rhizopod, into several chambers.
6. (zoology) One of the transverse partitions dividing the body cavity of an annelid.

• spetum

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈseːp.tum/, [ˈseːp.tũ]

sēptum n (genitive sēptī); second declension

1. Alternative form of saeptum

Second declension.

• septum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• septum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• septum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• septum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette