sevenfold

English

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Cardinal: seven     Ordinal: seventh     Abbreviated ordinal: 7th     Latinate ordinal: septenary     Adverbial: seven times     Multiplier: sevenfold     Latinate multiplier: septuple     Distributive: septuply     Germanic collective: sevensome     Collective of n parts: septuplet     Greek or Latinate collective: heptad     Greek collective prefix: hepta-     Fractional: seventh     Elemental: septuple     Number of musicians: septet     Number of years: septennium

Etymology

From Middle English sevenefold, from Old English seofonfeald. Equivalent to seven +‎ -fold.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛvənfoʊld/

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Adjective

sevenfold (not comparable)

1. Seven times as much; multiplied by seven.
   • 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter I, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

     “I'm through with all pawn-games,” I laughed. “Come, let us have a game of lansquenet. Either I will take a farewell fall out of you or you will have your sevenfold revenge”.

   • 1963 September, “French Railways' quarter-century expansion”, in Modern Railways, pages 189–190:

     Long-distance rail travel is increasing despite a similar sevenfold rise in ownership of private transport throughout the country.

2. Having seven parts; composed of seven items.
   • 1908, “The Seven Against Thebes”, in Edmund Doidge Anderson Morshead, transl., Four Plays of Aeschylus, page 120:

     Come down to the sevenfold gates and harry the foemen away!

Related terms

• seven
• seventh

Translations

multiplied by seven (adjective)

• Bulgarian: седморен (sedmoren), седемкратен (sedemkraten)
• Dutch: zevenvoudig (nl)
• Finnish: seitsemänkertainen, seitsenkertainen
• French: septuple (fr)
• German: siebenfach (de)
• Hungarian: hétszeres (hu), hétszer akkora/annyi
• Middle English: sevenefold
• Old English: seofonfeald
• Russian: семикра́тный (ru) (semikrátnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: seachd-fillte
• Swedish: sjufaldigad c, sjufaldigat n
• Telugu: ఏడింతలు (te) (ēḍintalu)

having seven parts (adjective)

• Bulgarian: седморен (sedmoren)
• Dutch: zevenvoudig (nl)
• Finnish: seitsemänosainen, seitsenosainen
• Hungarian: hétrészes, hetes (hu), hétrétű
• Italian: settemplice (it)
• Middle English: sevenefold
• Swedish: sjufaldig c, sjufaldigt n

Adverb

sevenfold (not comparable)

1. By a factor of seven.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 4:15:

     And the Lord said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the Lord set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.

Translations

by a factor of seven (adverb)

• Dutch: zevenmaal (nl)
• Finnish: seitsemänkertaisesti, seitsenkertaisesti
• German: siebenfach (de)
• Hungarian: hétszeresen, hétszeresére
• Middle English: sevenefold
• Swedish: sjufaldig c, sjufaldigt n

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Translations to be checked

• Serbo-Croatian: sedmostruk

References

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “sevenfold”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “sevenfold”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Middle English

Adjective

sevenfold

1. Alternative form of sevenefold

Adverb

sevenfold

1. Alternative form of sevenefold