seventy

Meanings

1. 1
   name

   The translators of the Septuagint

   The Seventy have totally miſrepreſented Iſaiah viii.14, 15 […].

2. 2
   adj

   being ten more than sixty

3. 3
   noun

   the cardinal number that is the product of ten and seven

4. 4
   num

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

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”).