/seˈtenta/
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Translation
seventy
Word origin
From Latin septuaginta ('seventy'), from septem ('seven') plus a form of the tens suffix. The same root gives the name of the Septuagint, the seventy translators of scripture.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- septuaginta
- English cognates
- septuagenarian
Examples
mayo.
My grandmother turns seventy in May.
.
The book has seventy pages.
.
There were seventy people in the room.
cuesta euros .
The trip costs seventy euros per person.
¿ ? .
Is he really seventy? He looks younger.
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