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Signal flag for the digit 7

Borrowed from English seven.

seven

  1. (international standards) NATO & ICAO radiotelephony clear code (spelling-alphabet name) for the digit 7.
    Synonym: setteseven (ITU/IMO)

ICAO/NATO radiotelephonic clear codes

Alfa Bravo Charlie Delta Echo Foxtrot Golf Hotel India Juliett Kilo Lima Mike
November Oscar Papa Quebec Romeo Sierra Tango Uniform Victor Whiskey Xray Yankee Zulu
zero one two three (tree) four (fower) five (fife) six seven eight nine (niner) hundred thousand decimal

ICAO/NATO vs ITU/IMO radiotelephonic clear codes for digits

ICAO/NATO zero one two three (tree) four (fower) five (fife) six seven eight nine (niner)
ITU/IMO nadazero unaone bissotwo terrathree kartefour pantafive soxisix setteseven oktoeight novenine
  1. ^ Annex 10 to the Convention on International Civil Aviation: Aeronautical Telecommunications; Volume II Communication Procedures including those with PANS status‎[1], 6th edition, International Civil Aviation Organization, October 2001, archived from the original on 31 March 2019, page §5.2.1.4.3.1

English numbers (edit)

| | 70 | | | | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | - | ----------------------------------- | | ← 6 | 7 | 8 → | | Cardinal: seven Ordinal: seventh Abbreviated ordinal: 7th Latinate ordinal: septenary Adverbial: seven times Multiplier: sevenfold Latinate multiplier: septuple Distributive: septuply Germanic collective: sevensome Collective of n parts: septuplet Greek or Latinate collective: heptad Greek collective prefix: hepta- Fractional: seventh Elemental: septuple Number of musicians: septet Number of years: septennium Number of days: week | | |

PIE word
*septḿ̥

From Middle English seven, from Old English seofon (“seven”), from Proto-West Germanic *sebun (“seven”), from Proto-Germanic *sebun (“seven”), from Proto-Indo-European *septḿ̥ (“seven”).

Cognate with Scots seiven (“seven”), West Frisian sân (“seven”), Saterland Frisian soogen (“seven”), Low German söven (“seven”), Dutch zeven (“seven”), German sieben (“seven”), Danish syv (“seven”), Norwegian sju (“seven”), Icelandic sjö (“seven”), Latin septem (“seven”), Ancient Greek ἑπτά (heptá, “seven”), Russian семь (semʹ), Sanskrit सप्त (saptá).

seven

  1. A numerical value equal to 7; the number following six and preceding eight. This many dots: (•••••••). Describing a group or set with seven elements.
    • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Joshua 6:1–5:
      1 Now Iericho was straitly shut vp, because of the children of Israel: none went out, & none came in.
      2 And the Lord said vnto Ioshua, See, I haue giuen into thine hand Iericho, and the King thereof, and the mighty men of valour.
      3 And ye shall compasse the city, all yee men of warre, and goe round about the city once: thus shalt thou doe sixe dayes.
      4 And seuen Priests shall beare before the Arke seuen trumpets of rams hornes: and the seuenth day yee shall compasse the city seuen times, and the Priests shall blow with the trumpets.
      5 And it shall come to passe that when they make a long blast with the rammes-horne, and when ye heare the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout: and the wall of the citie shall fall downe flat, and the people shall ascend vp euery man straight before him.
    • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 175:
      The cabbalism of the number seven is emphasized, for in hell seven judges at each of seven gates take one of these divine laws away from her.
    • 2024 December 23, “Cancer survivor makes hampers for young patients”, in BBC‎[2]:
      The seven hampers for four boys and three girls were personalised to each patient, including overnight hotel stays, colouring books and self care items.

Like other numerals, sometimes used postpositively in Late Middle English and Early Modern English, for exampleː

seven (countable and uncountable, plural sevens)

  1. The digit/figure 7 or an occurrence thereof.
    He wrote three sevens on the paper.
  2. (countable, card games) A card bearing seven pips.
  3. (slang) The soft drink 7 Up.
    a whisky and seven

the figure seven

a card bearing seven pips

Playing cards in English · playing cards (layout · text)
ace deuce, two three, trey four, cater five, cinque six seven
eight nine ten jack, knave queen king joker

Bislama cardinal numbers

< 6 7 8 >
Cardinal : seven

From English seven.

seven

  1. seven

seven

  1. courteous

Borrowed from English seven.

seven

  1. seven

seven

  1. alternative form of söven (seven (7))

From Old Dutch sivun, sivon, from Proto-West Germanic *sebun, from Proto-Germanic *sebun.

sēven

  1. seven

From sēve +‎ -en.

sēven

  1. to sift, to sieve

Conjugation of sēven (weak)

infinitive base form sēven
genitive sēvens
dative sēvene
indicative subjunctive
present past present past
1st person singular sēve — sēve —
2nd person singular sēefs, sēves — sēefs, sēves —
3rd person singular sēeft, sēvet — sēve —
1st person plural sēven — sēven —
2nd person plural sēeft, sēvet — sēeft, sēvet —
3rd person plural sēven — sēven —
imperative
singular sēef, sēve
plural sēeft, sēvet
present past
participle sēvende —

Middle English numbers (edit)

| | 70 | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | - | ---------------------------------------------- | | ← 6 | 7 | 8 → | | Cardinal: seven Ordinal: seventhe, sefte Multiplier: sevenfold | | |

Inherited from Old English seofon, from Proto-West Germanic *sebun, from Proto-Germanic *sebun, from Proto-Indo-European *septḿ̥.

The frequent lack of open-syllable lengthening is presumably due to levelling from postpositive sevene and the ordinal seventhe.

seven (postpositive sevene, preconsonantal (especially Southern or West Midland) seve)

  1. seven
    • c. 1225, Ancrene Ƿiſſe (MS. Corpus Christi 402)‎[3], Ludlow, Shropshire, published c. 1235, folio 53, verso; republished at Cambridge: Parker Library on the Web, January 2018:
      Þe neddꝛe of attrı onde haueð ſeoue hƿelpeſ. Ingratıtudo. þıſ cundel bꝛet hwa ſe nıſ ıcnaƿen goddede. ah teleð lutel þrof. oþer foꝛȝet mıd alle.
      The snake of poisonous envy has seven children. Ingratitude: this child is nurtured by whoever hasn't acknowledged benefits and hardly thinks about or [even] entirely forgets [them].
    • c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [_et al._], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎[4], published c. 1410, Apocalips 17:9, folio 123, recto, column 2; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:
      ⁊ þis is þe wit who þat haþ wiſdom / þe ſeuene heedis ben ſeuene hillis .· on which þe womman ſittiþ
      And the mind that has wisdom thinks: "The seven heads are the seven hills that the woman sits on […]

seven

  1. alternative form of sweven

seven

  1. alternative form of seiven

Tok Pisin numbers (edit)

| | 70 | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | - | --------------------------------- | | ← 6 | 7 | 8 → | | Cardinal: seven | | |

From English seven.

seven

  1. seven

Used when counting; see also sevenpela.

Tok Pisin cardinal numbers from 1 to 99

seven

  1. loving, affectionate

seven (definite accusative seveni, plural sevenler)

  1. lover (somebody who loves)