seventh

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈsɛvnθ/    美 /ˈsɛvənθ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The person or thing in the seventh position.
    — He departs with the significant announcement that he will post at the gates six defenders, with himself as the seventh.
  2. One of seven equal parts of a whole.
  3. A tone of the seventh degree from a given tone, the interval between two such tones, or the two tones sounding in unison.
形容词 adj.
  1. The ordinal form of the number seven. not-comparable
    — Sozomenus who wrote above twelve hundred years agoe, in his Seaventh Book relates from his own knowledge, that in the Churches of Cyprus and Arabia (places neer to Jeruſalem, and with the firſt frequented by Apoſtles) they had Biſhops in every Village ; and what could thoſe be more then Preſbyters?

词形变化

sevenths plural

词汇关系

衍生词
augmented seventh diminished seventh dominant seventh major seventh minor seventh

词源

词源 1
From Middle English seventhe, sefte, from Old English seofoþa, from Proto-West Germanic *sebundō, from Proto-Germanic *sebundô. The -n-, lost in northern Proto-West Germanic, was later reinserted by analogy with seven, equivalent to seven + -th.
词源 2
From Middle English seventhe, sefte, from Old English seofoþa, from Proto-West Germanic *sebundō, from Proto-Germanic *sebundô. The -n-, lost in northern Proto-West Germanic, was later reinserted by analogy with seven, equivalent to seven + -th.
0 次浏览 数据来源: Wiktionary