sene
English
Etymology 1
From Old French sene.
Alternative forms
- seene, senie
Noun
sene (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Senna.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 37, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
- My selfe have found by experience, that radish rootes are windie, and senie-leaves breede loosenes in the belly.
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Etymology 2
From Samoan sene, in turn from English cent.
Noun
sene (plural senes)
- A unit of currency equivalent to a hundredth of a Samoan tala.
Anagrams
- Nees, eens, esne, seen, snee
Atong (India)
Etymology
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-ni-s (“seven”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sʰene/
Numeral
sene (Bengali script সেনে)
- seven
Synonyms
- seben
- saat
References
- van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary.
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /seːnə/, [ˈseːnə]
- Homophone: scene
Etymology 1
From Old Norse sina, sin (“sinew”), from Proto-Germanic *senawō, cognate with Swedish sena, English sinew, German Sehne, Dutch zenuw. The word possiblyt goes back to Proto-Indo-European *snéh₁wr̥, which is also the source of Latin nervus, Ancient Greek νεῦρον (neûron).
Noun
sene c (singular definite senen, plural indefinite sener)
- sinew, tendon
Inflection
| common gender | Singular | Plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | sene | senen | sener | senerne |
| genitive | senes | senens | seners | senernes |
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Adjective
sene
- definite singular of sen
- plural of sen
Friulian
Noun
sene f (plural senis)
- scene
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin senem, from Proto-Indo-European *sénos (“old”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsɛ.ne/
- Rhymes: -ɛne
- Hyphenation: sè‧ne
Noun
sene m (plural seni)
- (obsolete, poetic) an old man
- 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Paradiso [The Divine Comedy: Paradise] (paperback), Le Monnier, published 2002, Canto XXXI, lines 58–60:
- Uno intendëa, e altro mi rispuose: ¶ credea veder Beatrice e vidi un sene ¶ vestito con le genti glorïose.
- One thing I meant, another answered me; I thought I should see Beatrice, and saw an old man habited like the glorious people.
- Synonyms: vecchio, vegliardo
- Antonyms: giovane, giovanotto
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Related terms
- senato
- senatorato
- senatore
- senatoriale
- senatorio
- senecione
- senescente
- senescenza
- senetta
- senettute
- senile
- senilismo
- senilità
- senilizzazione
- senio
Anagrams
- -ense
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈse.ne/, [ˈs̠ɛnɛ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈse.ne/, [ˈsɛːne]
Noun
sene
- ablative singular of senex
Norwegian Bokmål
Adjective
sene
- definite singular of sen
- plural of sen
Etymology 2
From Old Norse sina or sin.
Alternative forms
- sen
Noun
sene f or m (definite singular sena or senen, indefinite plural sener, definite plural senene)
- (anatomy) a tendon
Derived terms
- akillessene
Noun
sene m (definite singular senen, indefinite plural sener, definite plural senene)
- alternative form of scene
References
- “sene” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
From Old Norse sina, sin, from Proto-Germanic *senawō, from Proto-Indo-European *snḗh₁wr̥ (“sinew, tendon”). Cognates include English sinew.
Alternative forms
- sen
- (non-standard since 2012) sena
Noun
sene f (definite singular sena, indefinite plural sener, definite plural senene)
- (anatomy) a tendon
Derived terms
- akillessene
Noun
sene f or m (definite singular senen, indefinite plural senar, definite plural senane)
- alternative form of scene
References
- “sene” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Anagrams
- ense
Pali
Alternative forms
- 𑀲𑁂𑀦𑁂 (Brahmi script)
- सेने (Devanagari script)
- সেনে (Bengali script)
- සෙනෙ (Sinhalese script)
- သေနေ or သေၼေ (Burmese script)
- เสเน (Thai script)
- ᩈᩮᨶᩮ (Tai Tham script)
- ເສເນ (Lao script)
- សេនេ (Khmer script)
- 𑄥𑄬𑄚𑄬 (Chakma script)
Noun
sene
- inflection of sena (“hawk”):
- locative singular
- accusative plural
- vocative singular of senā (“army”)
Samoan
Etymology
From English cent.
Noun
sene
- a hundredth of a Samoan tala
- cent; penny
Descendants
- → English: sene
See also
- tālā
Sardinian
Etymology
From Latin senem, accusative case form of senex, from Proto-Indo-European *sénos (“old”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsene/
Adjective
sene m or f (masculine and feminine plural senes)
- old, aged
- Synonyms: betzu, begru
Related terms
- seneche
Slovak
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈsene]
Noun
sene n
- locative singular of seno
Swedish
Adjective
sene
- absolute definite natural masculine singular of sen.
Anagrams
- enes, ense
Tauya
Noun
sene
- stone
References
- Lorna MacDonald, A Grammar of Tauya
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish سنه (“year, era”), from Arabic سَنَة (sana). Cognate with Uzbek sana, Turkmen sene.
Noun
sene (definite accusative seneyi, plural seneler)
- year
Synonyms
- yıl
Related terms
- senelik
- senevî
References
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “سنه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 695