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English
Etymology 1
From Old French sene.
Noun
sene (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Senna.
1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 37, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes , book II, London: Val Simmes for Edward Blount , →OCLC:My selfe have found by experience, that radish rootes are windie, and senie-leaves breede loosenes in the belly.
Etymology 2
From Samoan sene, in turn from English cent.
Noun
sene (plural senes)
- A unit of currency equivalent to a hundredth of a Samoan tala.
Anagrams
Atong (India)
Etymology
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-ni-s (“seven”).
Pronunciation
Numeral
sene (Bengali script সেনে)
- seven
Synonyms
References
Crimean Tatar
Etymology
From Arabic سَنَة (sana)
Pronunciation
Noun
sene
- year
- Synonym: yıl
Declension
Derived terms
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Danish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old Norse sina, sin (“sinew”), from Proto-Germanic *senawō, cognate with Swedish sena, English sinew, German Sehne, Dutch zenuw. The word possiblyt goes back to Proto-Indo-European *snéh₁wr̥, which is also the source of Latin nervus, Ancient Greek νεῦρον (neûron).
Noun
sene c (singular definite senen, plural indefinite sener)
- sinew, tendon
Declension
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Adjective
sene
- definite singular of sen
- plural of sen
Friulian
Noun
sene f (plural senis)
- scene
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin senem, from Proto-Indo-European *sénos (“old”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsɛ.ne/
- Rhymes: -ɛne
- Hyphenation: sè‧ne
Noun
sene m (plural seni)
- (obsolete, poetic) an old man
- Synonyms: vecchio, vegliardo
- Antonyms: giovane, giovanotto
1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Paradiso (paperback), Le Monnier, published 2002, Canto XXXI, lines 58–60:Uno intendëa, e altro mi rispuose: ¶ credea veder Beatrice e vidi un sene ¶ vestito con le genti glorïose.- One thing I meant, another answered me; I thought I should see Beatrice, and saw an old man habited like the glorious people.
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
Noun
sene
- ablative singular of senex
Adjective
sene
- ablative masculine/feminine singular of senex
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Numeral
sēne
- vocative masculine singular of sēnus
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
Adjective
sene
- definite singular of sen
- plural of sen
Etymology 2
From Old Norse sina or sin.
Noun
sene f or m (definite singular sena or senen, indefinite plural sener, definite plural senene)
- (anatomy) a tendon
Derived terms
Etymology 3
Noun
sene m (definite singular senen, indefinite plural sener, definite plural senene)
- alternative form of scene
References
- “sene” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
From Old Norse sina, sin, from Proto-Germanic *senawō, from Proto-Indo-European *snḗh₁wr̥ (“sinew, tendon”). Cognates include English sinew.
Noun
sene f (definite singular sena, indefinite plural sener, definite plural senene)
- (anatomy) a tendon
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Noun
sene f or m (definite singular senen, indefinite plural senar, definite plural senane)
- alternative form of scene
References
- “sene” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Anagrams
Pali
Noun
sene
- inflection of sena (“hawk”):
- locative singular
- accusative plural
- vocative singular of senā (“army”)
Samoan
Etymology
From English cent.
Noun
sene
- a hundredth of a Samoan tala
- cent; penny
Descendants
See also
Sardinian
Etymology
From Latin senem, accusative case form of senex, from Proto-Indo-European *sénos (“old”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
sene m or f (masculine and feminine plural senes)
- old, aged
- Synonyms: betzu, begru
Serbo-Croatian
Noun
sene (Cyrillic spelling сене)
- inflection of sena:
- genitive singular
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural
Slovak
Pronunciation
Noun
sene n
- locative singular of seno
Swedish
Adjective
sene
- definite natural masculine singular of sen
Anagrams
Tauya
Noun
sene
- stone
References
- Lorna MacDonald, A Grammar of Tauya
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish سنه (sene, “year, era”), from Arabic سَنَة (sana).
Pronunciation
Noun
sene (definite accusative seneyi, plural seneler)
- year
- Synonym: yıl
Declension
References