novenus

nŏvēnus, a, um, num. adj. distr. [novem],

• nine each, nine: ut virgines ter novenae per urbem euntes carmen canerent, Liv. 27, 37: terga novena boūm, Ov. M. 12, 97: novenorum conceptu dierum, Plin. 3, 5, 9, § 53; in sing., Stat. S. 1, 2, 4.

novenus [CL] 1 (pl.; also in comp. numeral) nine (each or at a time), every nine. diminutio illa ‥ per denos et ~os annos tota conficitur Bede TR 42 p. 255; imperio functum denis simul atque novenis / orbibus annorum Alcuin SS Ebor 1080; septies ~i lxiij Byrht. Man. 30. 2 ninth; b (~ae Kalendae) ninth Calends (w. ref. to ninth day before the beginning of each month; cf. et. kalenda 2); c (as sb. f.) ninth part, one ninth. 1443 hora ~a ante prandium MunAcOx 534; s1445 ab hora tercia post nonam usque ad horam ~am Chr. Hen. VI & Ed. IV 149; 1458 hora ~a ante meridiem Law Merch. I 122; s1460 terminato anno octavo, inchoanteque ~o Reg. Whet. I 357; 1512 hora ~a ante meridiem vel circa Scot. Grey Friars II 245; 1526 inter horam novinam et ‥ decimam (v. meridies 1b).  b tres pueri retenent nōvenas jure kalendas Kal. M. A. I 398; pridie Nonas, ~e kalende Lucian Chester 36.  c si iij septimas in iiij ~as multiplicare volumus Adel. Alch. 23. 3 that consists of nine, ninefold. qui tenet ordinibus tria grandia vasa novenis Alcuin SS Ebor 1495; ut nos accipiat celi chorus ordo novenus Garl. Myst. Eccl. 198; novenus celicum conventus ordinis / panem de penore mendicat virginis Walt. Wimb. Carm. 124. 4 (med.) that lasts nine days. febres ‥ nominantur ab auctoribus septene, quintene, ~e, et similes Gilb. I 39. 2.

nŏvēnus, (16) a, um, Stat. S. 1, 2, 4 et dʼordinaire -vēnī, æ, a, comprenant chaque fois neuf : Ov. M. 12, 97 ; Liv. 27, 37, 7 ; Plin. 3, 53 ; virgines ter novenæ Liv. 27, 37, 7, trois groupes de neuf jeunes filles.