seven

Translingual

Signal flag for the digit 7

Etymology

From English seven.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

seven

1. (international standards) NATO & ICAO radiotelephony clear code (spelling-alphabet name) for the digit 7.

   Synonym: setteseven (ITU/IMO)

References

English

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Wikipedia

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 *septḿ̥ (“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 ἑπτά (heptá, “seven”), Russian семь (semʹ), Sanskrit सप्तन् (saptán).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛvn̩/

• Audio (RP, male)

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛvən/

• Audio (GA, female)

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• (casually also) IPA^(key):
• Homophone: Severn (non-rhotic accents)
• Rhymes: -ɛvən
• Hyphenation: se‧ven

Numeral

seven

1. A numerical value equal to 7; the number following six and preceding eight. This many dots: (•••••••). Describing a group or set with seven elements.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible,  (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Joshua 6:1–5:

     1 Now Iericho was straitly shut vp, because of the children of Israel: none went out, & none came in.
     2 And the Lord said vnto Ioshua, See, I haue giuen into thine hand Iericho, and the King thereof, and the mighty men of valour.
     3 And ye shall compasse the city, all yee men of warre, and goe round about the city once: thus shalt thou doe sixe dayes.
     4 And seuen Priests shall beare before the Arke seuen trumpets of rams hornes: and the seuenth day yee shall compasse the city seuen times, and the Priests shall blow with the trumpets.
     5 And it shall come to passe that when they make a long blast with the rammes-horne, and when ye heare the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout: and the wall of the citie shall fall downe flat, and the people shall ascend vp euery man straight before him.

   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 175:

     The cabbalism of the number seven is emphasized, for in hell seven judges at each of seven gates take one of these divine laws away from her.

Usage notes

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

• Son & moyne set in the heuen,
  Witħ starnes, & the planettys seuen,
    (The Creation in The Towneley Plays, ll. 50–51)

Derived terms

• four score and seven years ago

Related terms

• seventh

Translations

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.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

Playing cards in English · playing cards (layout · text)
ace	deuce, two	three	four	five	six	seven
eight	nine	ten	jack, knave	queen	king	joker

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): /ˈzɛːvən/

Etymology 1

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

Numeral

sēven

1. seven

Descendants

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

Etymology 2

From sēve +‎ -en.

Verb

sēven

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. Forms with final /ə/ are from Old English inflected forms.

Alternative forms

• ceven, seofen, seoven, sevene, sevyn, sewyn
• zeven, zeve (Kent)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛːvən(ə)/, /ˈsɛvən(ə)/
• (early) IPA^(key): /ˈsøːvən(ə)/, /ˈsœvən(ə)/

Numeral

seven

1. seven
   • c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎, published c. 1410, Apocalips 17:9, page 123r, column 2; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:

     ⁊ þis is þe wit who þat haþ wiſdom / þe ſeuene heedis ben ſeuene hillis .· on which þe womman ſittiþ

     And the mind that has wisdom thinks: "The seven heads are the seven hills that the woman sits on

Related terms

Descendants

• English: seven
• Middle Scots: sevin, sewin
  • Scots: seiven, seeven
• Yola: zeven

References

• “sē̆ven, num.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

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.

Coordinate terms

Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: sev‧en

Adjective

seven

1. loving, affectionate

Related terms

• sevgi
• sevilen
• sevmek

Noun

seven (definite accusative seveni, plural sevenler)

1. lover (somebody who loves)

Declension

Antonyms

• sevmeyen