sene

See also: Appendix:Variations of "sene"

English

Etymology 1

From Old French sene.

Alternative forms

• seene, senie

Noun

sene (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Senna.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 37, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

     My selfe have found by experience, that radish rootes are windie, and senie-leaves breede loosenes in the belly.

Etymology 2

From Samoan sene, in turn from English cent.

Noun

sene (plural senes)

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. sinew, tendon

Declension

Declension of sene

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

1. definite singular of sen
2. plural of sen

Friulian

Noun

sene f (plural senis)

1. 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)

1. (obsolete, poetic) an old man

   Synonyms: vecchio, vegliardo

   Antonyms: giovane, giovanotto

   • 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.

Related terms

• senato
• senatorato
• senatore
• senatoriale
• senatorio
• senecione
• senescente
• senescenza
• senetta
• senettute
• senile
• senilismo
• senilità
• senilizzazione
• senio

 

Anagrams

• -ense

Latin

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈse.ne/, [ˈs̠ɛnɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈse.ne/, [ˈsɛːne]

Noun

sene

1. ablative singular of senex

Adjective

sene

1. ablative masculine/feminine singular of senex

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈseː.ne/, [ˈs̠eːnɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈse.ne/, [ˈsɛːne]

Numeral

sēne

1. vocative masculine singular of sēnus

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Adjective

sene

1. definite singular of sen
2. 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)

1. (anatomy) a tendon

Derived terms

• akillessene

Etymology 3

Noun

sene m (definite singular senen, indefinite plural sener, definite plural senene)

1. 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)

1. (anatomy) a tendon

Derived terms

• akillessene

Etymology 2

Noun

sene f or m (definite singular senen, indefinite plural senar, definite plural senane)

1. alternative form of scene

References

• “sene” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• ense

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• 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

1. inflection of sena (“hawk”):
   1. locative singular
   2. accusative plural
2. vocative singular of senā (“army”)

Samoan

Etymology

From English cent.

Noun

sene

1. a hundredth of a Samoan tala
2. 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)

1. old, aged

   Synonyms: betzu, begru

Related terms

• seneche

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

sene (Cyrillic spelling сене)

1. inflection of sena:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈseɲe]

Noun

sene n

1. locative singular of seno

Swedish

Adjective

sene

1. definite natural masculine singular of sen

Anagrams

• enes, ense

Tauya

Noun

sene

1. stone

References

• Lorna MacDonald, A Grammar of Tauya

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish سنه (sene, “year, era”), from Arabic سَنَة (sana).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /se.ne/

• Audio:

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Noun

sene (definite accusative seneyi, plural seneler)

1. year

   Synonym: yıl

Declension

Inflection
Nominative	sene
Definite accusative	seneyi
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	sene	seneler
Definite accusative	seneyi	seneleri
Dative	seneye	senelere
Locative	senede	senelerde
Ablative	seneden	senelerden
Genitive	senenin	senelerin
Possessive forms Nominative Singular Plural 1st singular senem senelerim 2nd singular senen senelerin 3rd singular senesi seneleri 1st plural senemiz senelerimiz 2nd plural seneniz seneleriniz 3rd plural seneleri seneleri Definite accusative Singular Plural 1st singular senemi senelerimi 2nd singular seneni senelerini 3rd singular senesini senelerini 1st plural senemizi senelerimizi 2nd plural senenizi senelerinizi 3rd plural senelerini senelerini Dative Singular Plural 1st singular seneme senelerime 2nd singular senene senelerine 3rd singular senesine senelerine 1st plural senemize senelerimize 2nd plural senenize senelerinize 3rd plural senelerine senelerine Locative Singular Plural 1st singular senemde senelerimde 2nd singular senende senelerinde 3rd singular senesinde senelerinde 1st plural senemizde senelerimizde 2nd plural senenizde senelerinizde 3rd plural senelerinde senelerinde Ablative Singular Plural 1st singular senemden senelerimden 2nd singular senenden senelerinden 3rd singular senesinden senelerinden 1st plural senemizden senelerimizden 2nd plural senenizden senelerinizden 3rd plural senelerinden senelerinden Genitive Singular Plural 1st singular senemin senelerimin 2nd singular senenin senelerinin 3rd singular senesinin senelerinin 1st plural senemizin senelerimizin 2nd plural senenizin senelerinizin 3rd plural senelerinin senelerinin

Related terms

• senelik
• senevi

References

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سنه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 695