senne
/sˈɛn/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.43 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A surname
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A now partially covered river in Hainaut, Walloon Brabant and Flemish Brabant, Brussels and Antwerp, Belgium
name
A neighbourhood and district of Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Etymology
* As a German surname, spelling variant of Senn. * As a French surname, from Old French sené (“sage, wise”). * As an Italian surname, spelling variant of Senna, from the placenames Senna Lodigiana and Senna Comasco, both possibly from Etruscan 𐌔𐌄𐌌𐌍𐌀 (semna). Also from senna (“cassia plant”), from Arabic سَنَا (sanā, “plant whose leaves has cathartic properties”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, sené, 𐌔𐌄𐌌𐌍𐌀, سَنَا
Inflected Forms
Synonyms
Zenne