sevenfold

English

English numbers ^(edit)

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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     Quantile: septile

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English sevenfold, sevenefold, from Old English seofonfeald. Equivalent to seven +‎ -fold.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛvənfoʊld/

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Adjective

sevenfold (not comparable)

1. Seven times as much; multiplied by seven.
   • 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter I, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

     “I'm through with all pawn-games,” I laughed. “Come, let us have a game of lansquenet. Either I will take a farewell fall out of you or you will have your sevenfold revenge”.

   • 1963 September, “French Railways' quarter-century expansion”, in Modern Railways, pages 189–190:

     Long-distance rail travel is increasing despite a similar sevenfold rise in ownership of private transport throughout the country.

2. Having seven parts; composed of seven items.
   • 1908, “The Seven Against Thebes”, in Edmund Doidge Anderson Morshead, transl., Four Plays of Aeschylus, page 120:

     Come down to the sevenfold gates and harry the foemen away!

Derived terms

• sevenfoldness

Related terms

• seven
• seventh

Translations

multiplied by seven (adjective)

Bulgarian: седморен (sedmoren), седемкратен (sedemkraten) Dutch: zevenvoudig (nl) Finnish: seitsemänkertainen, seitsenkertainen French: septuple (fr) German: siebenfach (de) Hungarian: hétszeres (hu), hétszer akkora/annyi Middle English: sevenfold Old English: seofonfeald Russian: семикра́тный (ru) (semikrátnyj) Scottish Gaelic: seachd-fillte Swedish: sjufaldigad c, sjufaldigat n Telugu: ఏడింతలు (te) (ēḍintalu)

having seven parts (adjective)

Bulgarian: седморен (sedmoren) Dutch: zevenvoudig (nl) Finnish: seitsemänosainen, seitsenosainen Hungarian: hétrészes, hetes (hu), hétrétű Italian: settemplice (it) Middle English: sevenefold Swedish: sjufaldig c, sjufaldigt n

Adverb

sevenfold (not comparable)

1. By a factor of seven.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 4:15:

     And the Lord said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the Lord set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.

Translations

by a factor of seven (adverb)

Dutch: zevenmaal (nl) Finnish: seitsemänkertaisesti, seitsenkertaisesti German: siebenfach (de) Hungarian: hétszeresen, hétszeresére Middle English: sevenefold Swedish: sjufaldig c, sjufaldigt n

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Translations to be checked

Serbo-Croatian: sedmostruk

References

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “sevenfold”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “sevenfold”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Middle English

Middle English numbers ^(edit)

	7
Cardinal: seven     Ordinal: seventhe, sefte     Multiplier: sevenfold

Alternative forms

• sevenefold, sevene fold, seven fold
• seofefeald, seofenfeald, seovenfald, seovevald, sevenfald, sevevalt (Early Middle English); sefennfald (Ormulum)
• zevevald (Kent); sevenfald, sevenfalde (Northern)

Etymology

Inherited from Old English seofonfeald; equivalent to seven +‎ -fold.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛvə(n)fɔ̝ːld/
• (Early Middle English) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛvə(n)fɑːld/
• (Northern) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛvənfaːld/, /ˈsɛ̞ːvənfaːld/

Adjective

sevenfold

1. sevenfold
   • a. 1382, John Wycliffe, “Genesis 4:15”, in Wycliffe's Bible:

     And the Lord ſeide to hym, It ſchal not be don ſo, but ech man that ſchal ſlee Cayn ſhal be punyschid ſeuenfold. And the Lord ſettide a signe in Cayn, that ech man that ſchulde fynde hym ſchulde not ſlee hym.

     And the Lord said to him: "That won't be done, as anyone who would kill Cain will be punished sevenfold". And the Lord put a sign on Cain, so anyone who came across him wouldn't kill him.

Descendants

• English: sevenfold
• Middle Scots: sevinfald

References

• “sē̆venfōld(e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 17 February 2019.

Adverb

sevenfold

1. sevenfold

Descendants

• English: sevenfold
• Middle Scots: sevinfald

References

• “sē̆venfōld(e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 17 February 2019.