- hundseofontig
- num seventy
Old to modern English dictionary. 2013.
Old to modern English dictionary. 2013.
seventy — noun (plural ties) Etymology: seventy, adjective, from Middle English, from Old English seofontig, short for hundseofontig, from hundseofontig, noun, group of seventy, from hund hundred + seofon seven + tig group of ten; akin to Old English tīen… … New Collegiate Dictionary
seventy — cardinal number (plural seventies) the number equivalent to the product of seven and ten; ten less than eighty; 70. (Roman numeral: lxx or LXX.) Derivatives seventieth ordinal number. seventyfold adjective & adverb Origin OE hundseofontig, from… … English new terms dictionary