different between sene vs syne

English

Etymology 1

From Old French sene.

Alternative forms

• seene, senie

Noun

sene (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Senna.

Etymology 2

From Samoan sene, in turn from English cent.

Noun

sene (plural senes)

1. A unit of currency equivalent to a hundredth of a Samoan tala.

Anagrams

• Nees, eens, esne, seen, snee

Atong (India)

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-ni-s (“seven”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?ene/

Numeral

sene (Bengali script ????)

1. seven

Synonyms

• seben
• saat

References

• van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary.

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /se?n?/, [?se?n?]
• Homophone: scene

Etymology 1

From Old Norse sina, sin (“sinew”), from Proto-Germanic *senaw?, cognate with Swedish sena, English sinew, German Sehne, Dutch zenuw. The word possiblyt goes back to Proto-Indo-European *snéh?wr?, which is also the source of Latin nervus, Ancient Greek ?????? (neûron).

Noun

sene c (singular definite senen, plural indefinite sener)

1. sinew, tendon

Inflection

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Adjective

sene

1. definite singular of sen
2. plural of sen

Friulian

Noun

sene f (plural senis)

1. scene

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin senem, accusative case form of senex, from Proto-Indo-European *sénos (“old”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?.ne/
• Rhymes: -?ne
• Hyphenation: sè?ne

Noun

sene m (plural seni)

1. (obsolete, poetic) An old man
   • Synonyms: vecchio, vegliardo
   • Antonyms: giovane, giovanotto

Related terms

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?se.ne/, [?s??n?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?se.ne/, [?s??n?]

Noun

sene

1. ablative singular of senex

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Adjective

sene

1. definite singular of sen
2. plural of sen

Etymology 2

From Old Norse sina or sin

Alternative forms

• sen

Noun

sene f or m (definite singular sena or senen, indefinite plural sener, definite plural senene)

1. (anatomy) a tendon

Derived terms

• akillessene

Etymology 3

Noun

sene m (definite singular senen, indefinite plural sener, definite plural senene)

1. alternative form of scene

References

• “sene” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse sina, sin, from Proto-Germanic *senaw?, from Proto-Indo-European *sn?h?wr? (“sinew, tendon”). Cognates include English sinew.

Alternative forms

• sen
• (non-standard since 2012) sena

Noun

sene f (definite singular sena, indefinite plural sener, definite plural senene)

1. (anatomy) a tendon

Derived terms

• akillessene

Etymology 2

Noun

sene f or m (definite singular senen, indefinite plural senar, definite plural senane)

1. alternative form of scene

References

• “sene” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• ense

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

sene

1. inflection of sena (“hawk”):
   1. locative singular
   2. accusative plural
2. vocative singular of sen? (“army”)

Samoan

Etymology

From English cent

Noun

sene

1. a hundredth of a Samoan tala
2. cent; penny

Descendants

• ? English: sene

See also

• t?l?

Sardinian

Alternative forms

• seneche, seneghe

Etymology

From Latin senem, accusative case form of senex, from Proto-Indo-European *sénos (“old”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sene/

Adjective

sene m or f (masculine and feminine plural senes)

1. old, aged

   Synonyms: betzu, begru

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?sene]

Noun

sene n

1. locative singular of seno

Swedish

Adjective

sene

1. absolute definite natural masculine form of sen.

Anagrams

• enes, ense

Tauya

Noun

sene

1. stone

References

• Lorna MacDonald, A Grammar of Tauya

Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic ?????? (sana). Cognate with Uzbek sana, Turkmen sene.

Noun

sene (objective definite seneyi)

1. year

Synonyms

• y?l

English

Etymology

From Middle English syne, syn, sin, a contracted form of sithen (“since”). More at sithen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa?n/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /s?in/

Adverb

syne (comparative more syne, superlative most syne)

1. (Scotland, Northern England) Subsequently; then. [from 14th c.]
   • 1866, Susanna Blamire, and Sidney Gilpin (ed.), Songs and Poems, page 17:

     At last he comes, and on his knee

     The wee tots a'thegether cling,

     An' ilk yen strives to catch his ee,

     Syne tugs his cwoat an' bids him sing.

   • 1894, Howard Pease, The Mark o' The Deil And Other Northumbrian Tales, page 20:

     Sic a pair o' friends aa nivvor seed either before or syne.
2. (Scotland, Northern England, chiefly in phrases like "soon as syne") Late.
   • W. Hamilton (Life of Wallace)

     [Each rogue] shall be discovered either soon or syne.

   • 1843, Walter Scott, Waverly, page 357:

     "I had rather it came to-morrow than a month hence. Come, I know, it will; and, as your country folks say, better soon than syne  […]

3. (Scotland, Northern England) Before now; ago. [from 16th c.]
   • 1808, Allan Ramsay, The Gentle Sheperd, page 64:

     I eat, drink, and sleep as sound as I did twenty years syne; yes, I laugh heartily too, and find as many subjects to employ that faculty upon as ever; fools, fops, and knaves, grow as rank as formerly, yet here and there, […]

   • 1859, Old and Young, page 11:

     Camden Lyde had come to dwell in Mapleblade, a long while syne. His father had been in times past the parish parson, and the son was kindly affectionate to the old village scenes, and to the faces that seemed in some sort to belong to him } […]

Synonyms

• (subsequently): ensuingly, followingly; see also Thesaurus:then

Preposition

syne

1. (Scotland, Northern England) Since.
   • 1840, Howitt, Hope On, page ii:

     I've niver set fute i' Gibb's Ha' syne his father's death.

   • 1880, Banks, Wooers, III, i:

     Shoo's […] gitten fair pratty, syne Maister Allen gat wed.

See also

• auld lang syne

References

Anagrams

• NYSE, Neys, neys, nyes, snye, syen, yens

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch (de/het) zijne.

Pronoun

syne

1. his (that or those of him)

   Hy het my hemp aangehad en ek syne.

   He wore my shirt and I wore his.

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse sýna (“show”), derived from the noun sjón (“sight”), see Danish syn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?sy?n?]

Verb

syne

1. to inspect (a car or other vehicle to determine whether it is fit for use)

2. to examine, appraise
3. (intransitive) to look, appear (seem to have a certain quality)
4. (intransitive) be visible

Inflection

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

syne n

1. genitive form of syn

   komme til syne - to come into view

Verb

syne (present tense syner, past tense and past participle synet)

1. to appear,to become visible

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

syne n

1. kome til syne - to come into view

Verb

syne (present tense syner, past tense synte, past participle synt, passive infinitive synast, present participle synande, imperative syn)

1. Alternative form of syna

References

• “syne” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English s?n, northern form of sithen, from Old English siþþan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?in/

Adverb

syne (not comparable)

1. afterwards, thereupon
2. thus, hence
3. since, ago

Derived terms

• lang syne

References

• “syne” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.