seventy

See also: Seventy

English

English numbers ^(edit)

		700
←  60	←  69	70	71  →	80  →
		7
Cardinal: seventy     Ordinal: seventieth     Adverbial: seventy times     Multiplier: seventyfold

Etymology

From Middle English seventy, sevynty, from Old English hundseofontiġ, from Proto-Germanic *sebuntēhundą (“seventy”), equivalent to seven +‎ -ty. Cognate with Scots seiventy (“seventy”), Saterland Frisian soogentich (“seventy”), West Frisian santich (“seventy”), Dutch zeventig (“seventy”), German Low German söventig (“seventy”), German siebzig (“seventy”), Swedish sjuttio (“seventy”), Norwegian sytti (“seventy”), Icelandic sjötíu (“seventy”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛv.ən.ti/
• (US, also) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛv.ən.di/

• Audio (US):

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Numeral

seventy

1. The cardinal number occurring after sixty-nine and before seventy-one, represented in Roman numerals as LXX and in Arabic numerals as 70.

Synonyms

• Arabic numerals: 70
• Roman numerals: LXX

Translations

cardinal number

• Afrikaans: sewentig (af)
• Albanian: shtatëdhjetë (sq)
• Arabic: سَبْعِينَ (sabʕīna), (only nominative, formal) سَبْعُون (sabʕūn)

  Egyptian Arabic: سبعين (sabʕīn)

• Aramaic:

  Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} שבעין c (shab‘īn)

  Syriac: ^{(please verify)} ܫܒܥܝܢ c (shab‘īn)

• Armenian: յոթանասուն (hy) (yotʻanasun)
• Aromanian: shaptidzãts
• Asturian: setenta (ast)
• Azerbaijani: yetmiş (az)
• Bashkir: етмеш (yetmeş)
• Basque: hirurogeita hamar (eu)
• Belarusian: се́мдзесят (be) (sjémdzjesjat)
• Bengali: সত্তর (bn) (śottor)
• Bikol Central: pitompulo
• Breton: dek ha tri-ugent
• Bulgarian: седемдесе́т (sedemdesét)
• Burmese: ခုနစ်ဆယ် (hku.nachcai)
• Carpathian Rusyn: сімдеся́ть (simdesjátʹ)
• Catalan: setanta (ca)
• Cebuano: kapitoan
• Central Dusun: turu nohopod
• Chechen: кхузткъе итт (quztqʼe itt)
• Cherokee: ᎦᎵᏆᏍᎪᎯ (galiquasgohi)
• Chichewa: makumi asanu ndiawiri
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 七十 (zh) (qīshí)

  Wu: 七十 (⁷chiq-zeq)

• Chuukese: fiik
• Chuvash: ҫитмӗл (śitmĕl)
• Crimean Tatar: yetmiş
• Czech: sedmdesát (cs)
• Dalmatian: septuanta, setuonta
• Danish: halvfjerds (da)
• Dhivehi: ހަތްތަރި (hat̊tari), ހަތްދިހަ (hat̊diha)
• Dutch: zeventig (nl) f
• Dzongkha: བདུན་ཅུ (bdun cu)
• Esperanto: sepdek (eo)
• Estonian: seitsekümmend (et)
• Farefare: pisyopɔɩ
• Fijian: vitusagavulu
• Finnish: seitsemänkymmentä (fi)
• French: (France, Quebec, Luxembourg) soixante-dix (fr), (Belgium, Congo-Kinshasa, Switzerland, northern France) septante (fr) m
• Friulian: setante
• Galician: setenta (gl)
• Georgian: სამოცდაათი (samocdaati)
• German: siebzig (de) f
• Greek: εβδομήντα (el) (evdomínta)

  Ancient: ἑβδομήκοντα (hebdomḗkonta), ο΄ (numeral)

• Hausa: saba'in
• Hawaiian: kanahiku
• Hebrew: שִׁבְעִים m or f (shiv‘ím)
• Hiligaynon: kapituan
• Hindi: सत्तर (hi) (sattar)
• Hungarian: hetven (hu)
• Hunsrik: sibzich
• Icelandic: sjötíu (is)
• Ido: sepadek (io)
• Indonesian: tujuh puluh (id)
• Ingrian: seitsenkymment
• Interlingua: septanta
• Irish: seachtó (ga)

  Old Irish: sechtmoga

• Italian: settanta (it) m
• Japanese: 七十 (ja) (ななじゅう, nanajū, しちじゅう, shichijū)
• Kapampangan: pitumpulu
• Karachay-Balkar: джетмиш (cetmiş)
• Kazakh: жетпіс (kk) (jetpıs)
• Khakas: читон (çiton)
• Khmer: ចិតសិប (km) (cət səp)
• Komi-Permyak: сизимдас (śiźimdas)
• Korean: 칠십(七十) (ko) (chilsip), 일흔 (ko) (ilheun)
• Kumyk: етмиш (yetmiş)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: حەفتا (ḧefta)

  Northern Kurdish: heftê (ku)

• Kyrgyz: жетимиш (ky) (jetimiş)
• Ladin: setanta
• Lakota: wikčémna šakówiŋ
• Lao: ເຈັດສິບ (chet sip)
• Latin: septuaginta (la)
• Latvian: septiņdesmit (lv)
• Ligurian: settanta
• Lithuanian: septyniasdešimt (lt)
• Livonian: seiskimdõ
• Lombard: setanta
• Louisiana Creole French: swasant-dis
• Luxembourgish: siwwenzeg
• Macedonian: седумдесет (sedumdeset)
• Malagasy: fitopolo
• Malay: tujuh puluh (ms), pitu puluh
• Malayalam: എഴുപത് (ml) (eḻupatŭ)
• Maltese: sebgħin
• Manchu: ᠨᠠᡩᠠᠨᠵᡠ (nadanju)
• Manx: tree feed as jeih
• Maori: whitu tekau (mi)
• Middle English: seventy
• Mongolian: дал (mn) (dal)
• Nauruan: aemo
• Navajo: tsostsʼidiin
• Norwegian: sytti (no)
• Occitan: setanta (oc)
• Ojibwe: niizhwaasimidana
• Old Church Slavonic: седмь десѧтъ (sedmĭ desętŭ)
• Old English: hundseofontiġ
• Old Saxon: antsivuntig
• Old Turkic: 𐰘𐱅𐰢𐰾 (y²t²ms² /⁠yetmiš⁠/)
• Oromo: torbatama
• Ottoman Turkish: یتمش (yetmiş)
• Pennsylvania German: siwwezich
• Persian: هفتاد (fa) (haftâd)
• Piedmontese: stanta
• Polish: siedemdziesiąt (pl)
• Portuguese: setenta (pt)
• Quechua: qanchis chunka
• Romagnol: setànta
• Romanian: șaptezeci (ro)
• Romansch: settanta, siatonta, satànta, settaunta
• Russian: се́мьдесят (ru) (sémʹdesjat)
• Samoan: fitusefulu
• Sanskrit: सप्तति (sa) (saptati)
• Santali: ᱮᱭᱟᱭ ᱜᱮᱞ (eyay gel)
• Sardinian: setanta
• Scottish Gaelic: (old system) trì fichead 's a deich, (new system) seachdad
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: седамдесет

  Roman: sedamdeset

• Shan: ၸဵတ်းသိပ်း (tsáet síp)
• Sicilian: sittanta (scn)
• Sinhalese: හැත්තෑව (hættǣwa)
• Slovak: sedemdesiat (sk)
• Slovene: sedemdeset (sl)
• Southern Altai: јетен (ǰeten)
• Spanish: setenta (es)
• Swahili: sabini (sw)
• Swedish: sjuttio (sv)
• Tagalog: pitumpu
• Tahitian: hitu 'ahuru
• Tajik: хафтод (xaftod)
• Tatar: җитмеш (tt) (citmeş)
• Telugu: డెబ్భై (te) (ḍebbhai)
• Thai: เจ็ดสิบ (th) (jèt-sìp)
• Tigrinya: ሰብዓ (säbʿa)
• Tocharian B: ṣuktanka
• Tok Pisin: seventi, sevenpela ten
• Tongan: fitungofulu
• Turkish: yetmiş (tr)
• Turkmen: ýetmiş (tk)
• Tuvan: чеден (çeden)
• Udmurt: сизьымдон (śiźymdon)
• Ukrainian: сі́мдесят (uk) (símdesjat)
• Unami: nishash txinxke
• Urdu: ستر (sattar)
• Uyghur: يەتمىش (yetmish)
• Uzbek: yetmish (uz)
• Venetan: setanta (vec)
• Vietnamese: bảy mươi (vi)
• Volapük: veldeg (vo)
• Votic: seitsetšümmed
• Waray-Waray: kapituan
• Welsh: (vigesimal, traditional) deg ar thrigain, (decimal) saith deg (cy)
• West Frisian: santich
• Yakut: сэттэ уон (sette uon)
• Yiddish: זיבעציק (zibetsik)
• Yup'ik: yuinaat pingayun qula

See also

• Last: sixty-nine, sixty
• Next: seventy-one, eighty

Middle English

Middle English numbers ^(edit)

←  60	70
	7
Cardinal: seventy     Ordinal: seventithe

Alternative forms

• cevyntye, senty, sevenety, seventi, sevinti, sevynty, seyventi, zeventy
• (early) sefentiȝ, seofenntiȝ, seoventiȝ, soventi

Etymology

From Old English seofontiġ, alteration of hundseofontiġ, itself a modification of Proto-Germanic *sebuntēhundą; equivalent to seven +‎ -ty.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛvəntiː/, /ˈsɛːvəntiː/

Numeral

seventy

1. seventy

Descendants

• English: seventy
• Scots: seiventy

References

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