sean

See also: Sean, séan, Seán, -sean, sean-, and Appendix:Variations of "sean"

English

Noun

sean (plural seans)

  1. Alternative form of seine

Verb

sean (third-person singular simple present seans, present participle seaning, simple past and past participle seaned)

  1. Alternative form of seine
    • 1874, Edmund William Hunt Holdsworth, Deep-sea fishing and fishing boats (page 157)
      Seaning is conducted on a large scale at St. Ives for the capture of pilchards […]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for sean in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish sen (compare Manx shenn), from Proto-Celtic *senos (compare Welsh hen), from Proto-Indo-European *sénos (“old”) (compare Latin senior/senex, Lithuanian sẽnas).

Pronunciation

Adjective

sean (comparative sine) (used predicatively)

  1. old

Usage notes

Noun

sean m (genitive singular sean, nominative plural seana)

  1. senior, ancestor
  2. oldness; old thing

Declension
Declension of sean

Irregular

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative sean seana
Vocative a shean a sheana
Genitive sean sean
Dative sean seana

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an sean na seana
Genitive an tsean na sean
Dative leis an tsean

don tsean

 leis na seana

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
sean shean
after an, tsean		 not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading
  • "sean" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • “1 sen” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish sen (compare Manx shenn), from Proto-Celtic *senos (compare Welsh hen), from Proto-Indo-European *sénos (“old”) (compare Latin senior/senex, Lithuanian sẽnas).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ʃɛn/

Adjective

sean (comparative sine)

  1. old

Derived terms

Further reading
  • Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • “1 sen” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Spanish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈsean/, [ˈseãn]

Verb

sean

  1. Second-person plural (ustedes) present subjunctive form of ser.
  2. Third-person plural (ellos, ellas, also used with ustedes?) present subjunctive form of ser.
  3. Second-person plural (ustedes) imperative form of ser.

Volapük

Noun

sean (plural seans)

  1. ocean (large body of water)

Declension
declension of sean
singular plural
nominative sean seans
genitive seana seanas
dative seane seanes
accusative seani seanis
vocative 1 o sean! o seans!
predicative 2 seanu seanus
  • 1 status as a case is disputed
  • 2 in some later, non-classical Volapük only
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