Kilo Lingo

/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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This word is part of lesson 85.