septum

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

Borrowed from Latin sēptum (“enclosure, wall, fence”).

Septa, what, 105, and note. — The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete, Suetonius
The Saka, who are of the same language-group as the Karahone, wear the bones of birds instead of a palm nose-pin through the septum. — The North-West Amazons: Notes of some months spent among cannibal tribes, Thomas Whiffen
Then with the convex part of the septum curved upwards so as almost--but not quite--to touch the uvula, try with the tip of your tongue to reach your thyroid. — Three men on the bummel, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

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