septet

English

Alternative forms

• septette

Etymology

PIE word
*septḿ̥

From Latin septem (“seven”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛpˈtɛt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛt

English numbers ^(edit)

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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     Number of days: week

Noun

septet (plural septets)

1. A group of seven, particularly
   1. (music) A group of seven musicians.

      The Lindsey Septet performs at Carnegie Hall this evening.

      • 2025 July 1, Maria Sherman, “BTS will return in spring 2026 with a new album and world tour”, in Associated Press‎^[1]:

        The K-pop septet BTS will return in spring 2026 with a new album and world tour.

   2. (music) A composition for a group of seven musicians.
      • 1871 December, Robert Browning, Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, Saviour of Society, London: Smith, Elder and Co., →OCLC, page 124:

        [W]hoso rhymes a sonnet pays a tax, / Who paints a landscape dips brush at his cost, / Who scores a septett true for strings and wind / Mulcted must be—else how should I impose / Properly, attitudinize aright, / Did such conflicting claims as these divert / Hohenstiel-Schwangau from observing me?

   3. (poetry) A set of seven lines.

      Coordinate terms: couplet, tercet, quatrain, cinquain, sestet, octave

Synonyms

• septuor, heptad, septuplet
• (poetry): heptastich

Hyponyms

• septennium (years)

Translations

group of seven

• Finnish: septetti (fi), seitsikko (fi)
• Hebrew: שִׁבְעַת m (Shiv'at)
• Italian: settimino m
• Maori: tokowhitu
• Northern Sami: čiežas
• Spanish: septeto (es) m
• Swedish: septett (sv) c

musical composition for seven instruments or seven voices

• Hungarian: szeptett

See also

• Thesaurus:number

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Septett.

Noun

septet n (plural septete)

1. septet

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	septet	septetul		septete	septetele
genitive-dative	septet	septetului		septete	septetelor
vocative	septetule			septetelor