sene

See also: Sene, sené, sēne, sēnē, and -sene

English

Etymology 1

From Old French sene.

Alternative forms

• seene, senie

Noun

sene (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Senna.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 37, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:

     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)

1. A unit of currency equivalent to a hundredth of a Samoan tala.

Anagrams

• Nees, eens, esne, seen, snee

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Atong (India)

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-ni-s (“seven”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sʰene/

Numeral

sene (Bengali script সেনে)

1. seven

Synonyms

• seben
• saat

References

• van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary.

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Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /seːnə/, [ˈseːnə]
• Homophone: scene

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)

1. sinew, tendon

Inflection

Declension of sene

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	sene	senen	sener	senerne
genitive	senes	senens	seners	senernes

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

sene

1. definite singular of sen
2. plural of sen

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Friulian

Noun

sene f (plural senis)

1. scene

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin senem, accusative case form of senex, from Proto-Indo-European *sénos (“old”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛ.ne/
• Rhymes: -ɛne
• Hyphenation: sè‧ne

Noun

sene m (plural seni)

1. (obsolete, poetic) an old man
   • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Paradiso [The Divine Comedy: Paradise] (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.

   • Synonyms: vecchio, vegliardo
   • Antonyms: giovane, giovanotto

Related terms

• senato
• senatorato
• senatore
• senatoriale
• senatorio
• senecione
• senescente
• senescenza
• senetta
• senettute
• senile
• senilismo
• senilità
• senilizzazione
• senio

 

Anagrams

• -ense

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈse.ne/, [ˈs̠ɛnɛ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈse.ne/, [ˈsɛːne]

Noun

sene

1. ablative singular of senex

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Adjective

sene

1. definite singular of sen
2. plural of sen

Etymology 2

From Old Norse sina or sin

Alternative forms

• sen

Noun

sene f or m (definite singular sena or senen, indefinite plural sener, definite plural senene)

1. (anatomy) a tendon

Derived terms

• akillessene

Etymology 3

Noun

sene m (definite singular senen, indefinite plural sener, definite plural senene)

1. alternative form of scene

References

• “sene” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse sina, sin, from Proto-Germanic *senawō, from Proto-Indo-European *snḗh₁wr̥ (“sinew, tendon”). Cognates include English sinew.

Alternative forms

• sen
• (non-standard since 2012) sena

Noun

sene f (definite singular sena, indefinite plural sener, definite plural senene)

1. (anatomy) a tendon

Derived terms

• akillessene

Etymology 2

Noun

sene f or m (definite singular senen, indefinite plural senar, definite plural senane)

1. alternative form of scene

References

• “sene” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• ense

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Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative forms

• 𑀲𑁂𑀦𑁂 (Brahmi script)
• सेने (Devanagari script)
• সেনে (Bengali script)
• සෙනෙ (Sinhalese script)
• သေနေ or သေၼေ (Burmese script)
• เสเน (Thai script)
• ᩈᩮᨶᩮ (Tai Tham script)
• ເສເນ (Lao script)
• សេនេ (Khmer script)

Noun

sene

1. inflection of sena (“hawk”):
   1. locative singular
   2. accusative plural
2. vocative singular of senā (“army”)

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Samoan

Etymology

From English cent

Noun

sene

1. a hundredth of a Samoan tala
2. cent; penny

Descendants

• → English: sene

See also

• tālā

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Sardinian

Etymology

From Latin senem, accusative case form of senex, from Proto-Indo-European *sénos (“old”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsene/

Adjective

sene m or f (masculine and feminine plural senes)

1. old, aged

   Synonyms: betzu, begru

Related terms

• seneche

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Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsene]

Noun

sene n

1. locative singular of seno

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Swedish

Adjective

sene

1. absolute definite natural masculine singular of sen.

Anagrams

• enes, ense

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Tauya

Noun

sene

1. stone

References

• Lorna MacDonald, A Grammar of Tauya

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Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish سنه‎ (“year, era”), from Arabic سَنَة‎ (sana). Cognate with Uzbek sana, Turkmen sene.

Noun

sene (definite accusative seneyi, plural seneler)

1. year

Related terms

• senelik
• senevî

Synonyms

• yıl

References

• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “سنه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 695