Translation
seventeen
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Examples
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At seventeen he became a soldier.
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Seventeen ships returned to the harbour.
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After seventeen days we saw the city.
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Seventeen soldiers fell in the battle.
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The teacher was teaching seventeen boys.
Septendecim is septem and decem, seven and ten; septemdecim is the same word spelled without the assimilation. It is indeclinable, so the noun carries the case: septendecim dierum, septendecim navibus.
The ordinal is septimus decimus, "seventeenth". Seventeen was the age at which a Roman became liable for military service, which is why the first example is less random than it looks.
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This word is taught in chapter 1, lesson 12: septendecim, propter, ergo and 11 more words.