Heptatudinous ??????

[Maggoty]

On a TV programme, SPY, the young prococious son used the word heptatudinous and there was some discussion between him and his father re the fact that the father didn't know what it meant and doubted the word existed.

Being the person that I am :-) I have since tried to find out the meaning if it is indeed an actual word. I can't find it in my dictionaries or the online version. Is it such a word or am I spelling it incorrectly?

Thanks in advance

Ali
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[joggerjayne]

Something to do with "seven" ??

[bibblebub]

that word only exists in AB land (that's the only site google finds)

[factor-fiction]

Did they mention anything at all about the meaning of the word? Hept- normally means seven (heptagon, heptathlon, heptane).

[joggerjayne]

Well, if "multitudinous" means there are lots of them ...

Maybe "heptatudinous" means it's always seven of them.

[factor-fiction]

I thought it might be heptitudinous but that doesn't seem to exist either.

[factor-fiction]

Could stem from Heptet
http://www.godchecker...logy.php?deity=HEPTET

[jno]

you could probably construct a word which meant something like "full of seven-ness" or "the importance of being seven"... was the son seven years old?

[slaney]

Could it be hebetudinous?
http://www.answers.com/topic/hebetudinous

[factor-fiction]

This word is close- could you have misheard it?
http://wordsmith.org/words/hebetudinous.html

[Maggoty]

Slaney and factor30 - you could be onto something there. i did rack my brains re the 'seven' connection but couldn't see why he would be calling his father that. Hebetudinous meaning : Lacking mental and physical alertness and activity certainly fits (he was complaining that his dad was in a dead end job and had no get up and go)

brilliant

Knew you guys would come through for me :-)

Love ya lots

Alison

[venator]

No help from the OED, either - nearest is

hepato-, comb. form

Pronunciation: /ˈhɛpətəʊ/ /ˌhɛpəˈtɒ/
Etymology: < ancient Greek ἡπατο- , combining form of ἧπαρ liver.


hepatocele n. /ˈhɛpətəʊsiːl/ [Greek κήλη tumour] hernia of the liver.

1811 R. Hooper Lexicon-medicum, Hepatocele, an hernia in which a portion of the liver protrudes through the abdominal parietes.
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ˌhepatoˈcellular adj. of or pertaining to hepatic cells.

1940 E. Rosenthal Dis. Digestive Syst. iii. 212 Jaundice may be i. Mechanical ii. Functional (hepato~cellular) iii. Hæmolytic.
1949 J. L. Kantor & A. M. Kasich Handbk. Digestive Dis. (ed. 2) xvii. 415 The hepato~cellular and the obstructive forms of jaundice make up more than 95 per cent of the cases encountered in clinical practice.
1962 Lancet 13 Jan. 67/1 Patients with hepato~cellular disease are faced with the prospect of hepatic coma and death every time they have a haemorrhage.

[Maggoty]

When its repeated I shall put subtitles on and make sure its hebetudinous - tho to be fair the subtitles don't always get it right.

I will stick with hebetudinous - at least I can say I have larnt something today :-)

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[Bert]

One more thing - the word you meant to type was 'precocious'.
:-)

[Maggoty]

LOL - and larnt!! Sorry - my brain is always quicker than my fingers. Should larn to read my text before hitting the button :-)

(ps - I meant to put 'larn' in there ... x)

[daisya]

I think we all larn (smile) something in here and that's a word if I can remember it lol that I will use in certain circs for some people...ahem.

[Maggoty]

I'm loving the word. To actually have a word that means 'Lazily thick' is brilliant. I will certainly have use for such a word - especially, by the looks of it, they won;t know what it means :-)

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[NoMercy]

Hep also refers to the liver, but I cannot say I have ever encountered that word.