hebdŏmas, ădis, f., = e(bdoma/s, the number seven, seven days: libri, qui inscribuntur Hebdomades, Gell. 3, 10, 1: septima fere hebdomade, id est, nono et quadragesimo die, Varr. ib. 7: hebdomadibus lunae,
on every seventh day of the moon
, Gell. 15, 2, 3.—Of the critical seventh day in diseases: symphoniam Lysonis vellem vitasses, ne in quartam hebdomada incideres, Cic. Fam. 16, 9, 3 (cf. collat. form hebdomada, s. v.).