sene

From Old French sene.

• seene, senie

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 946730821:

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

From Samoan sene, in turn from English cent.

sene (plural senes)

1. A unit of currency equivalent to a hundredth of a Samoan tala.

• Nees, eens, esne, seen, snee

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-ni-s (“seven”).

• IPA^(key): /sʰene/

sene (Bengali script সেনে)

1. seven

• seben
• saat

• van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /seːnə/, [ˈseːnə]
• Homophone: scene

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).

sene c (singular definite senen, plural indefinite sener)

1. sinew, tendon

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

sene

1. definite singular of sen
2. plural of sen

sene f (plural senis)

1. scene

Borrowed from Latin senem, from Proto-Indo-European *sénos (“old”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛ.ne/
• Rhymes: -ɛne
• Hyphenation: sè‧ne

sene m (plural seni)

1. (obsolete, poetic) an old man
   • 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.

   • Synonyms: vecchio, vegliardo
   • Antonyms: giovane, giovanotto

• -ense

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

sene

1. ablative singular of senex

sene

1. definite singular of sen
2. plural of sen

From Old Norse sina or sin.

• sen

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

1. (anatomy) a tendon

• akillessene

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

1. alternative form of scene

• “sene” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse sina, sin, from Proto-Germanic *senawō, from Proto-Indo-European *snḗh₁wr̥ (“sinew, tendon”). Cognates include English sinew.

• sen
• (non-standard since 2012) sena

sene f (definite singular sena, indefinite plural sener, definite plural senene)

1. (anatomy) a tendon

• akillessene

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

1. alternative form of scene

• “sene” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• ense

sene

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

From English cent.

sene

1. a hundredth of a Samoan tala
2. cent; penny

• → English: sene

• tālā

From Latin senem, accusative case form of senex, from Proto-Indo-European *sénos (“old”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsene/

sene m or f (masculine and feminine plural senes)

1. old, aged

   Synonyms: betzu, begru

• seneche

• IPA^(key): [ˈsene]

sene n

1. locative singular of seno

sene

1. absolute definite natural masculine singular of sen.

• enes, ense

sene

1. stone

• Lorna MacDonald, A Grammar of Tauya

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

sene (definite accusative seneyi, plural seneler)

1. year

• yıl

• senelik
• senevî

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