septenary
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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
[edit]From the Latin septēnārius (“consisting of seven each”), from septēnī (“seven each”, “seven at a time”) + -ārius (whence the English suffix -ary).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /sɛpˈtiːnəɹi/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Adjective
[edit]septenary (not comparable)
- Consisting of or containing seven.
- Of seventh rank or order.
- 1899 October, W J McGee, “The Beginning of Mathematics”, in American Anthropologist[1], 1(4), page 657:
- ... indeed if further evidence than that of bestial and savage counting were required to show that finger-numeration and the quinary system were not primeval, it would be afforded by the development of the senary-septenary system in so many lands.
- Lasting seven years; continuing seven years.
- 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
- Septenary penance.
Synonyms
[edit]Translations
[edit]of seventh rank or order
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See also
[edit]- unary (1)
- primary (1st)
- binary (2)
- secondary (2nd)
- ternary (3)
- tertiary (3rd)
- quaternary (4)
- quinary (5)
- senary (6)
- octonary (8)
- nonary (9)
- denary (10)
- duodenary (12)
- vigenary (20)
Noun
[edit]septenary (plural septenaries)
- A group of seven things.
- A period of seven years.
- 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 596:
- This idea was based on the doctrine that a man's body changed its character every seven years and that his life was thus made up of ‘septenaries’.
- (music) The seven notes of the diatonic scale.