seven

Meanings

1. 1
   num

   The number 7, coming after six and before eight.

   There are seven days in a week.

2. 2
   noun

   The figure or digit 7.

   He wrote three sevens on the paper.

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Simplified etymology

Seven is inherited from Old English and descends from the same ancient root as Latin septem and Greek hepta, both meaning “seven.”

PIE word *septḿ̥ From Middle English seven, from Old English seofon (“seven”), from Proto-West Germanic *sebun (“seven”), from Proto-Germanic *sebun (“seven”), from Proto-Indo-European *septḿ̥ (“seven”). Cognate with Scots seiven (“seven”), West Frisian sân (“seven”), Saterland Frisian soogen (“seven”), Low German söven (“seven”), Dutch zeven (“seven”), German sieben (“seven”), Danish syv (“seven”), Norwegian sju (“seven”), Icelandic sjö (“seven”), Latin septem (“seven”), Ancient Greek ἑπτά (heptá, “seven”), Russian семь (semʹ), Sanskrit सप्त (saptá).

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