sennight
/ˈsɛnaɪt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "I dranke not this sennet A draught to my pay; Elynour, I thé pray, Of thyne ale let vs assay, […]"
- "Marry he trots hard vvith a yong maid, betvveen the contract of her marriage, and the day it is ſolemnizd: if the interim be but a ſennight, Times pace is ſo hard, that it ſeemes the length of ſeuen yeare."
- "And Mrs. Jevvkes tells me, every one names Thurſday come Sev'nnight for our Nuptials."
- "Sir Robert Pringle and John Hunter attended the meeting of Heritors intimated here on Sunday gone a se'enight."
- "We leave Bath, as she has perhaps told you, on Saturday se'nnight."
- "It will be in my power to assure him that her ladyship was quite well yesterday se'nnight."
Etymology
From Middle English senight, senyght, sinight (“sevennight, a week”) [and other forms], a shortened form of seven-night, sevenight, sevenyght [and other forms], from Late Old English seofeniht (compare seofonnihte (“seven days old; seven days long”, adjective)), from seofon (“seven”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *septḿ̥ (“seven”)) + niht (“night; day (when computing spans of time)”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts (“night”)). Doublet of sevennight.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: senight, seofeniht, *septḿ̥, *nókʷts
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈsɛnaɪt/
- British English: /ˈsɛnaɪt/
Usage
Inflected Forms
sennights (plural)
sennet (alternative)
se'nnight (alternative)
se'night (alternative)
sevennight (alternative)
seven-night (alternative)
seu'night (alternative)
sev'nnight (alternative)
Frequently Paired Words
Synonyms
week in its various senses