# seventy

Pronunciation: say "SEV-uhn-dee" /ˈsɛv.ən.di/

## Numeral

1. The cardinal number that follows sixty-nine and comes before seventy-one, written as 70 in Arabic numerals and LXX in Roman numerals.
   - Simple: The number that comes after sixty-nine and before seventy-one, written as 70.
   - _The gallery displayed seventy paintings from the artist's final decade._
   - _Voter turnout reached seventy percent across the district this year._

## Origin

From Middle English seventy, from Old English hundseofontiġ, going back to Proto-Germanic *sebuntēhundą, and equivalent to seven plus the suffix -ty. It is related to Dutch zeventig, German siebzig, and Swedish sjuttio.

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