seventy

From Middle English seventy, sevynty, from Old English seofontiġ (also as hundseofontiġ, unseofontiġ (“seventy”)), from Proto-Germanic *sebuntēhundą (“seventy”), equivalent to seven +‎ -ty. Cognate with Scots sevinty (“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”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛv.ən.ti/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛv.ən.di/, /ˈsɛv.ən.ti/

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seventy

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

• Arabic numerals: 70
• Roman numerals: LXX

• Last: sixty-nine, sixty
• Next: seventy-one, eighty