seventy

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seventy^¹

/ˈsɛv.ən.ti/
/ˈsɛv.ən.di/ US, also

Where it comes from

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”).

number 70 · LXX

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

Seventy^²

proper noun

The translators of the Septuagint The Seventy have totally miſrepreſented Iſaiah viii.14, 15 […].

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: lxx, cardinal, seven, jive, seventy-five, sixty, seventyfold, heptacontagon, septuaginta, septuagenary, sattar, eighty, forty, fifty, twenty, thirty

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Every language

num cardinal number

Español	setenta
한국어	일흔 ilheun, 칠십 chilsip
日本語	七十
中文	七十 qīshí
हिन्दी	सत्तर sattar
Kiswahili	sabini
Português	setenta
Français	soixante-dix, septante, trois vingt dix
Deutsch	siebzig
Italiano	settanta
Ελληνικά	εβδομήντα evdomínta
Română	șaptezeci
Русский	се́мьдесят sémʹdesjat
Tiếng Việt	bảy mươi
العربية	سَبْعِينَ sabʕīna, سَبْعُون sabʕūn
עברית	שִׁבְעִים shiv‘ím

name translators of the Septuagint

Français	Septante

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@misc{seventy_2026,
  title = {seventy},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/seventy},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}