seventy
See also: Seventy
English
edit700 | ||||
← 60 | ← 69 | 70 | 71 → | 80 → |
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7 | ||||
Cardinal: seventy Ordinal: seventieth Adverbial: seventy times Multiplier: seventyfold |
Etymology
editFrom Middle English seventy, sevynty, from Old English hundseofontiġ, from Proto-Germanic *sebuntēhundą (“seventy”), equivalent to seven + -ty. Cognate with Scots seiventy (“seventy”), Saterland Frisian soogentich (“seventy”), West Frisian santich (“seventy”), Dutch zeventig (“seventy”), German Low German söventig (“seventy”), German siebzig (“seventy”), Swedish sjuttio (“seventy”), Norwegian sytti (“seventy”), Icelandic sjötíu (“seventy”).
Pronunciation
editNumeral
editseventy
- The cardinal number occurring after sixty-nine and before seventy-one, represented in Roman numerals as LXX and in Arabic numerals as 70.
Synonyms
editTranslations
editcardinal number
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See also
edit- Last: sixty-nine, sixty
- Next: seventy-one, eighty
Middle English
edit← 60 | 70 | |
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7 | ||
Cardinal: seventy Ordinal: seventithe |
Alternative forms
edit- cevyntye, senty, sevenety, seventi, sevinti, sevynty, seyventi, zeventy
- (early) sefentiȝ, seofenntiȝ, seoventiȝ, soventi
Etymology
editFrom Old English seofontiġ, alteration of hundseofontiġ, itself a modification of Proto-Germanic *sebuntēhundą; equivalent to seven + -ty.
Pronunciation
editNumeral
editseventy
Descendants
editReferences
edit- “sē̆ventī, num.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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