different between seven vs seventeen

Translingual

Etymology

From English seven

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?sev.n]

Numeral

seven

1. Code word for the digit 7 in the NATO/ICAO spelling alphabet

Synonyms

ITU/IMO code word setteseven

References

English

Alternative forms

• Arabic numerals: 7 (see for numerical forms in other scripts)
• Roman numerals: VII
• sev'n

Etymology

From Middle English seven, from Old English seofon (“seven”), from Proto-West Germanic *sebun (“seven”), from Proto-Germanic *sebun (“seven”), from Proto-Indo-European *sept?? (“seven”). Cognate with Scots seiven (“seven”), West Frisian sân (“seven”), Saterland Frisian soogen (“seven”), Low German söven (“seven”), Dutch zeven (“seven”), German sieben (“seven”), Danish syv (“seven”), Norwegian sju (“seven”), Icelandic sjö (“seven”), Latin septem (“seven”), Ancient Greek ???? (heptá, “seven”), Russian ???? (sem?), Sanskrit ?????? (saptán).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?s?v.?n/. In casual speech also ? /?sebm/ (not before a vowel sound).
• Rhymes: -?v?n
• Homophone: Severn (non-rhotic accents)

Numeral

seven

1. A numerical value equal to 7; the number following six and preceding eight. This many dots: (•••••••).
2. Describing a group or set with seven elements.

Usage notes

Like other numerals, sometimes used postpositively in Late Middle English and Early Modern English, for example?

• Sun and moon set in the heaven, with stars, and the planets seven. (The Towneley plays)

Related terms

• seventh

Translations

See seven/translations § Numeral.

See also

• Table of cardinal numbers 0 to 9 in various languages

Noun

seven (countable and uncountable, plural sevens)

1. The digit/figure 7 or an occurrence thereof.

   He wrote three sevens on the paper.

2. (countable, card games) A card bearing seven pips.

Translations

Derived terms

See also

Anagrams

• Evens, Neves, eevns, evens, neves, névés

Bislama

Etymology

From English seven.

Numeral

seven

1. seven

Breton

Adjective

seven

1. courteous

Dutch Low Saxon

Numeral

seven

1. Alternative form of zeuven (seven)

Fanagalo

Etymology

Borrowed from English seven.

Numeral

seven

1. seven

Middle Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?z??v?n/

Etymology 1

From Old Dutch sivun, sivon, from Proto-West Germanic *sebun, from Proto-Germanic *sebun.

Numeral

s?ven

1. seven

Descendants

• Dutch: zeven
• Limburgish: zeve
• Zealandic: zeven

Etymology 2

From s?ve +? -en.

Verb

s?ven

1. to sift, to sieve

Inflection

Descendants

• Dutch: zeven

Further reading

• “seven”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “seven (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “seven (IV)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page IV

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English seofon

Alternative forms

• seofen, seoven, sevene, ceven, sevyn, sewyn

Pronunciation

• (Early ME) IPA^(key): /?sø?v?n/, /?sœv?n/
• IPA^(key): /?s??v?n/, /?s?v?n/

Numeral

seven

1. seven

Related terms

• sevenefold
• seventene
• sevenþe
• sevenyght

Descendants

• English: seven
• Scots: seiven, seeven (obsolete sevin, sewin)
• Yola: zeven

Etymology 2

From Old English swefn.

Noun

seven

1. Alternative form of sweven

Scots

Numeral

seven

1. Alternative form of seiven

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English seven.

Numeral

seven

1. seven

Usage notes

Used when counting; see also sevenpela.

Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [seven]
• Hyphenation: sev?en

Adjective

seven (comparative daha seven, superlative en seven)

1. loving, affectionate

Related terms

• sevgi
• sevilen
• sevmek

Noun

seven (definite accusative seveni, plural sevenler)

1. lover (somebody who loves)

Declension

Antonyms

• sevmeyen

English

Alternative forms

• (Arabic numerals): 17
• (Roman numerals): XVII
• (Exmoor dial.): zewnteen

Etymology

From Middle English seventene, from Old English seofont?ene, from Proto-Germanic *sebuntehun. Cognate with Dutch zeventien, West Frisian santjin, German siebzehn, Danish sytten.

Pronunciation

• (next word stressed near the first syllable)

  (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?s?v.?n.ti?n/

• (next word stressed after the first syllable)

  (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?s?v.?n?ti?n/

• Rhymes: -i?n

Numeral

seventeen

1. The cardinal number occurring after sixteen and before eighteen, represented in Roman numerals as XVII and in Arabic numerals as 17.

Derived terms

• Ordinal: seventeenth

Translations

Derived terms

• seventeenth

See also

• Last: sixteen. Next: eighteen

Middle English

Numeral

seventeen

1. Alternative form of seventene