Septimanal
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Septimanal
Weekly. Occurring weekly. ''Going to church every Sunday is a septimanal activity.''
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Re: Septimanal
I figured the meaning was in the -al, so I looked up diurnal, and Lo! there it was.a suffix with the general sense “of the kind of, pertaining to, having the form or character of” that named by the stem, occurring in loanwords from Latin (autumnal; natural; pastoral), and productive in English on the Latin model, usually with bases of Latin origin (accidental; seasonal; tribal). Originally, -al1 was restricted to stems not containing an -l- (cf. -ar1.); recent lapses in this rule have produced semantically distinct pairs, as familiar and familial.
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