Sept.
- 1Abbreviation of September.
The committee scheduled the next meeting for Sept. 14.
We moved into the apartment back in Sept. 2019.
Note
A clipped month that belongs to dates, calendars and tables, where space is tight: a survey footnote can run "Feb. or Sept." without a second thought. In running prose the full September is the safer choice. The same letters and period also abbreviate the Greek Bible translation. A nearby day number or year is what tells the reader the month is meant.
- 2Abbreviation of Septuagint.
The commentary follows the Sept. rather than the Masoretic reading.
Scholars compared the Sept. with later Greek revisions of the same passages.
Note
A scholar's shorthand for the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible made in Alexandria in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC. It belongs to commentaries and textual notes rather than everyday writing. The full name carries an older sense, "a group of seventy", once applied to the team of translators themselves, which is why the work is tied to that number.
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