Septuagint

Etymology
From, lit. "The Seventy", a clipping of earlier descriptional names such as  and  , calques of  names such as    (hoi ebdomḗkonta hermēneutaí, “the 70 interpreters”) and   (hoi O′, “the LXX”), deriving from the popular (but ) belief that its translation of the Torah had been produced in 72 days by a team of 72 Jewish scholars from Jerusalem (6 from each ) summoned to Alexandria during the reign of.

Proper noun

 * 1)  The team of translators who produced the Septuagint.
 * 2) An influential Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible produced in Alexandria in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC.
 * 3) * 2006, Katrin Hauspie, Theodoret and Messianic Verses in the Septuagint version of Ezekiel, Michael Anthony Knibb (editor), The Septuagint and Messianism,, (Peeters Leuven), page 503,
 * Traces of messianism in the Septuagint have occupied scholars for years; the Book of Ezekiel too has challenged attention in this specific domain of research.
 * 1) * 2009, Jan Joosten, The Prayer of Azariah (DanLXX 3): Sources and Origin, Johann Cook (editor), Septuagint and Reception,, page 5,
 * The Septuagint originated, for the most part, as a translation of a source text. As such it represents a link—and a very important one—in the reception history of the Hebrew-Aramaic scriptures. But the Septuagint very soon turned into a literary and religious reference in its own right.The Septuagint itself became the starting point for a new reception history.

Translations

 * Arabic: اَلتَّرْجَمَة اَلسَّبْعِينِيَة
 * Armenian: Յոթանասնից թարգմանություն
 * Old Armenian: Եօթանասնից թարգմանութիւն
 * Catalan: Septuaginta
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 七十士譯本
 * Czech: Septuaginta
 * Danish: Septuaginta
 * Dutch: Septuaginta,
 * Esperanto: Septuaginto
 * Estonian: Septuaginta
 * Finnish: Septuaginta
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: Μετάφραση των Εβδομήκοντα,
 * Hebrew: תרגום השבעים
 * Indonesian: Septuaginta
 * Italian: Septuaginta
 * Japanese: 七十人訳聖書
 * Latin: Septuaginta
 * Norwegian: Septuaginta
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: Septuaginta
 * Romanian: Septuaginta
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: Septuaginta
 * Ukrainian: Септуаґі́нта

Etymology
Shortening of older, perhaps influenced by English.