seventh

English

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Cardinal: seven     Ordinal: seventh     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 seventhe, sefte, from Old English seofoþa, from Proto-West Germanic *sebundō, from Proto-Germanic *sebundô. The -n-, lost in northern Proto-West Germanic, was later reinserted by analogy with seven, equivalent to seven +‎ -th.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛvnθ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛvənθ/

• Audio (General American):

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• Rhymes: -ɛvənθ
• Hyphenation: sev‧enth

Adjective

seventh (not comparable)

1. The ordinal form of the number seven.

   Synonyms: 7th, 7^th, VIIth, (in names of monarchs and popes) VII

   • 1644, Dudley Diggs, The Unlawfulnesse of Subjects Taking up Armes against their Soveraigne, in what Case ſoever, page 158:

     Sozomenus who wrote above twelve hundred years agoe, in his Seaventh Book relates from his own knowledge, that in the Churches of Cyprus and Arabia (places neer to Jeruſalem, and with the firſt frequented by Apoſtles) they had Biſhops in every Village ; and what could thoſe be more then Preſbyters?

   • 1659, J[ohn] M[ilton], Considerations Touching the Likeliest Means to Remove Hirelings out of the Church. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcombe] for L[ivewell] Chapman […], →OCLC, pages 57–58:

     [H]e, a lollard indeed over his elbovv-cuſhion, in almoſt the ſeaventh part of 40. or 50. years teaches them ſcarce half the principles of religion; and his ſheep oft-times ſit the vvhile to as little purpoſe of benifiting as the ſheep in thir pues at Smithfield; […]

   • 1976, L[ilian] H[amilton] Jeffery, “Kylon and Drakon”, in Archaic Greece: The City-States, c. 700-500 b.c., New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, section II (Central and Northern Greece), subsection 7 (Athens and Attica), page 86:

     [T]he law codes drafted in Athens in the late seventh and early sixth centuries were the work of individuals, Drakon and then Solon.

Derived terms

• half-diminished seventh chord
• major seventh chord
• minor seventh chord
• seventh art
• seventh chord
• seventh cranial nerve
• seventh grade
• seventh grader
• seventh heaven
• seventh inning stretch
• the seventh water after kissel

Translations

ordinal form of the number seven — see also 7th

• Afrikaans: sewende (af)
• Albanian: shtatë (sq)
• Arabic: سَابِع m (sābiʕ), سَابِعَة f (sābiʕa)

  Egyptian Arabic: سابع (sābiʕ)

• Armenian: յոթերորդ (hy) (yotʻerord)
• Asturian: séptimu (ast)
• Azerbaijani: yeddinci
• Bashkir: етенсе (yetense)
• Basque: zazpigarren (eu)
• Belarusian: сёмы (be) (sjómy)
• Bengali: সপ্তম (bn) (śoptom)
• Breton: seizhvet (br)
• Bulgarian: се́дми (sédmi)
• Burmese: သတ္တမ (my) (satta.ma.)
• Buryat: долоодохи (doloodoxi)
• Carpathian Rusyn: се́мый (sémŷj)
• Catalan: setè (ca), sèptim (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 第七 (zh) (dìqī)

• Chuukese: efisuen
• Classical Nahuatl: ic chicōme
• Crimean Tatar: yedinci
• Czech: sedmý (cs)
• Danish: syvende (da)
• Dutch: zevende (nl)
• Esperanto: sepa (eo)
• Estonian: seitsmes (et)
• Evenki: нады̄ (nadī)
• Faroese: sjeyndi
• Finnish: seitsemäs (fi)
• French: septième (fr) (before the noun); (in names of monarchs and popes) sept (fr) (after the name) (abbreviation VII)
• Gagauz: edinci
• Georgian: მეშვიდე (mešvide)
• German: siebte (de)
• Greek: έβδομος (el) (évdomos)

  Ancient: ἕβδομος (hébdomos)

• Hawaiian: hiku
• Hebrew: שביעי (shebîy‛îy, shebi‛îy)
• Hindi: सातवां (sātvā̃)
• Hungarian: hetedik (hu)
• Icelandic: sjöundi
• Ido: sepesma (io)
• Indonesian: ketujuh (id)
• Ingrian: seitsemäs
• Interlingua: septime
• Irish: seachtú
• Italian: settimo (it) (before the noun); (in names of monarchs and popes) settimo m, settima f (after the name) (abbreviation VII)
• Japanese: 七番目 (ななばんめ, nanaban-me; しちばんめ, shichiban-me)
• Kalmyk: доладгч (doladgç)
• Kazakh: жетінші (kk) (jetınşı)
• Khakas: читінӌі (çitìncì)
• Khmer: ទីប្រាំពីរ (tii pram pii)
• Korean: 일곱째 (ko) (ilgopjjae)
• Kyrgyz: жетинчи (ky) (jetinci)
• Lao: ທີ່ເຈັດ (thī chet)
• Latin: septimus (la)
• Latvian: septītais (lv)
• Lithuanian: septintas (lt)
• Macedonian: седми (sedmi)
• Malay: ketujuh (ms)
• Malayalam: ഏഴാം (ml) (ēḻāṁ), ഏഴാമത്തെ (ēḻāmatte)
• Maltese: is-seba’
• Manchu: [script needed] (nadaci)
• Manx: shiaghtoo
• Maori: tuawhitu, te whitu
• Middle English: seventhe
• Mongolian: долдугаар (doldugaar), долоодахь (doloodaxʹ)
• Navajo: tsostsʼid góneʼ
• North Frisian:

  Föhr-Amrum: sööwenst

  Helgoland: seebens

• Northern Sami: čihččet
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sjuende, syvende (no)

  Nynorsk: sjuande

• Old Church Slavonic: седмъ (sedmŭ)
• Pali: sattama
• Persian: هفتم (fa) (haftom)
• Polish: siódmy (pl)
• Portuguese: sétimo (pt)
• Romani: eftato

  Kalo Finnish Romani: eftato

• Romanian: șaptelea (ro)
• Russian: седьмо́й (ru) (sedʹmój)
• Sanskrit: सप्तम (sa) (saptama), सप्तमः (sa) (saptamaḥ)
• Scots: seevent
• Scottish Gaelic: seachdamh
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: седми

  Roman: sedmi (sh)

• Shor: четтинчи
• Sinhalese: හත්‍වැනි (hatwæni)
• Slovak: siedmy (sk)
• Slovene: sedmi (sl)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: sedymy

  Upper Sorbian: sedmy

• Southern Altai: јетинчи (ǰetinči)
• Spanish: séptimo (es)
• Swahili: ya saba
• Swedish: sjunde (sv)
• Tagalog: ikapito
• Tajik: ҳафтум (tg) (haftum)
• Tatar: җиденче (cidençe)
• Telugu: ఏడవ (te) (ēḍava), ఏడో (ēḍō)
• Thai: ที่เจ็ด (tîi-jèt)
• Turkish: yedinci (tr)
• Turkmen: ýedinji
• Ukrainian: сьо́мий (uk) (sʹómyj)
• Urdu: ساتواں (sātvā̃)
• Uzbek: yettinchi (uz)
• Vietnamese: thứ bảy (vi)
• Volapük: velid (vo)
• Welsh: seithfed (cy)
• West Frisian: sânde
• Yakut: сэттис (settis)
• Yiddish: זיבעט (zibet)

Noun

seventh (plural sevenths)

1. The person or thing in the seventh position.
2. One of seven equal parts of a whole.
3. (music) A tone of the seventh degree from a given tone, the interval between two such tones, or the two tones sounding in unison.

Derived terms

• augmented seventh
• diminished seventh
• dominant seventh
• major seventh
• minor seventh

Translations

something in the seventh position

• Armenian: յոթերորդ (hy) (yotʻerord)
• Asturian: séptimu (ast) m
• Basque: zazpigarren (eu)
• Finnish: seitsemäs (fi)
• French: septième (fr) m or f
• Hindi: सातवाँ (hi) (sātvā̃)
• Hungarian: hetedik (hu)
• Interlingua: septimo m, septima f
• Italian: settimo (it) m, settima f
• Latgalian: septeits m, septeita f
• Latvian: septītais (lv) m, septītā f
• Lithuanian: septintas (lt) m, septinta f
• Macedonian: седми (sedmi)
• Maori: tuawhitu
• Portuguese: sétimo (pt) m, sétima (pt) f
• Romanian: al șaptelea (ro) m or n, a șaptea f
• Russian: седьмо́й (ru) (sedʹmój)
• Swedish: sjua (sv) c
• Turkish: yedinci (tr)
• Urdu: ساتواں (sātvā̃)

one of seven equal parts of a whole

• Arabic: سُبْع (subʕ)
• Armenian: յոթերորդ (hy) (yotʻerord)
• Asturian: séptimu (ast) m
• Catalan: setè (ca) m, sèptim (ca) m
• Czech: sedmina (cs) f
• Esperanto: sepono
• Finnish: seitsemäsosa (fi), seitsemännes (fi)
• French: septième (fr) m
• Georgian: მეშვიდედი (mešvidedi)
• Hawaiian: hapahiku
• Hungarian: heted (hu)
• Interlingua: septimo
• Italian: settimo (it) m
• Latvian: septītā daļa
• Lithuanian: septintadalis m
• Maori: hauwhitu
• Middle English: seventhe
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: syvendedel m

• Plautdietsch: Säwendel n
• Portuguese: sétimo (pt) m
• Romanian: șeptime (ro) f
• Russian: (одна) седьмая (часть) ((odna) sedʹmaja (častʹ))
• Swedish: sjundedel (sv) c
• Yiddish: זיבעטל n (zibetl)

musical interval

• Afrikaans: septiem
• Catalan: sèptima (ca) f
• Czech: septima (cs) f
• Finnish: septimi (fi)
• French: septième (fr) f
• German: Septime (de) f
• Hungarian: szeptim (hu)
• Japanese: 七度 (ja) (ななど, nanado; しちど, shichido)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: septim m

  Nynorsk: septim m

• Polish: septyma f
• Romanian: septimă (ro) f

Middle English

Adjective

seventh

1. Alternative form of seventhe