seventeenthadj.n.

Brit.

/ˌsɛvnˈtiːnθ/,

/ˈsɛvntiːnθ/, U.S.

/ˌsɛvənˈtinθ/,

/ˈsɛvənˌtinθ/

Forms:

α. Old English seafanteoða (rare), Old English seofanteoþa, Old English seofenteoþa, Old English seofenteoða, Old English seofontegða, Old English seofonteogeþa, Old English seofonteogeða, Old English seofonteoþa, Old English seofonteoða, Old English seofontigeþa, early Middle English seofentuðe, early Middle English syfenteoþe, Middle English seuenteþe, Middle English seventeþ.

β. Middle English seuentenþ, Middle English seuentenþe, Middle English seventenyth, Middle English–1500s seuenteneth, Middle English–1500s seuententhe, Middle English–1600s seuententh, 1500s sevynteenth, 1500s–1600s seuenteenth, 1500s–1600s sevententh, 1500s– seventeenth; Scottish pre-1700 seaventeinth, pre-1700 seventeinth, pre-1700 seventent, pre-1700 seventint, pre-1700 sevinteint, pre-1700 sewintent, pre-1700 sewintint, pre-1700 1700s– seventeenth, 1900s seyventeent.

γ. late Middle English seuentend (north midlands), late Middle English seuintende (northern); Scottish pre-1700 seuyntend.

Also represented by the abbreviations 17th, 17^th, xviith, xvii^th, XVIIth, XVII^th, and variants.

Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.

Etymology: Cognate with West Frisian santjinde , Middle Dutch seventiende (Dutch zeventiende ), Middle High German sibenzehende (German siebzehnte ), Old Icelandic sjautjánde (Icelandic sautjánde ), Norwegian syttende , Old Swedish siutande (Swedish sjuttonde ), Old Danish sjutende (Danish syttende ) < the Germanic base of seven adj. + the Germanic base of tenth adj. (compare discussion of form types at that entry and the note on ordinal numerals at -teen comb. form).Further forms in Germanic languages. With the cognates cited above compare also (with ordinal form of the first element: see seventh adj.) Old High German sibuntozehanto , (with further suffixation) Middle High German sibenzehendest , and (with suffix substitution) Middle Dutch seventienste (Dutch regional zeventienste ). Notes on forms. With the Old English α. forms in -tēoða compare the β forms at tenth adj. and n.; Old English α. forms such as seofontēgða , seofontēogeða , etc. occur in West Saxon sources showing Anglian (Mercian) influence (compare the α forms at tenth adj. and n.). The later developments (β. and γ. forms) are parallel with those of fifteenth adj. and n. The γ. forms in -d , -de probably reflect Scandinavian influence; compare cognates in the Scandinavian languages cited above and also forms and discussion at tenth adj. and n.

The ordinal numeral corresponding to the cardinal numeral seventeen. Also written 17th.

A. adj.

Next in order after the sixteenth; that is number seventeen in a series.

a. With noun expressed.

ΚΠ

eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) iii. xviii. 238 Þis gefeoht Osweo se cyning..þy seofonteoþan dæge Kalendarum Decembrium [L. septima decima die kalendarum Decembrium] gefremede.

c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) l. 2559 Of marz þe seuentenþe day.

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Hunterian) f. 35 (MED) Galiene..seiþ in þe seuentenþe boke..þat þer ben foure commodites..off þe anothomie.

a1456 (a1449) J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 424 (MED) Take þe seventeþ in ordre sette Lyneal of þe ABC.

1709 G. Allardes Let. 9 Aug. in I. Newton Corr. (1967) IV. 541 He is now in the 17th year of his age.

1839 H. T. De la Beche Rep. Geol. Cornwall xv. 590 About the end of the seventeenth century.

1862 M. E. Braddon Lady Audley's Secret III. iii. 88 He..married me three months after my seventeenth birthday.

1920 Times 4 May 8/4 A catastrophe that cost him two strokes in the little bunker by the 17th hole.

1966 New Statesman 11 Nov. 718/3 The 17th anniversary of this column.

2015 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 22 Oct. 54/4 We are presented with two great historical moments, one in the seventeenth century, one toward the end of the eighteenth.

b. With ellipsis of the noun.

ΚΠ

OE Rule St. Benet (Corpus Cambr.) xviii. 43 Butan þam [sealmum], þe þær betweox ascyrede synt to oðrum tidsangum, þæt is fram ðam hundteontigeþan and seofonteoðan oð þone hundteontigeðan and seofon and twentigeðan [L. a centesimo septimo decimo usque centesimo uicesimo septimo].

OE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Cambr. Univ. Libr.) i. v. 32 Seuerus casere.., se wæs seofonteogeða fram Agusto.

a1425 Rule St. Benet (Lansd.) (1902) 17 (MED) Saie sexe salmis..wen þai ar said, þe hundred seuintende, and þe sextid þe secunde.

1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. ii. 130 The Sails of the Wings are in number twenty... As for their colours,..: The seventeenth is black, having one or two blue spots.

1863 P. Barry Dockyard Econ. 110 Seventeenth in order stand the trenail-houses.

1991 Harper's Mag. Dec. 68/2 At fourteen I was ranked seventeenth in the United States Tennis Association's Western Section.

2002 Chicago Tribune 17 June iii. 9/2 An eighth-minute headed goal by Fernando Morientes, his 17th in 23 games for Spain.

B. n.

1. The seventeenth person, thing, or part of a category, series, etc., identified contextually; esp. the seventeenth day of the month, the seventeenth chapter of a book of the Bible (now rare), the seventeenth hole on a golf course, or a person's seventeenth birthday.

ΚΠ

1574 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. St. Paule to Galathians xviii. f. 136 For howe can God become indetted vntoo vs, as it is tolde vs in the seuenteenth of Sainct Luke?

a1627 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Old Law (1656) v. 59 September the seventeenth.

1845 D. Costello Tour Valley Meuse 171 An edict of the 17th of December 1755 interdicted the Stilters from assembling in the market-place.

1936 News (Adelaide) 10 Sept. 20/4 He had another birdie on the seventeenth after cutting his drive.

2016 @paigehenley14 6 Jan. in twitter.com (accessed 12 Aug. 2020) My 17th on Sunday and my first driving lesson next Thursday, exciting.

2. Music.

a. An interval spanning seventeen notes on the diatonic scale; a note sixteen degrees of the scale above or below a given note; (also) a concord of two notes a seventeenth apart.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > interval > [noun] > sixteenth-twentieth

nineteenth1597

seventeenth1597

twentieth1609

sixteenth1876

1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke iii. 126 Though I do in it talke of fifteenth and seuententhes, yet are these cordes seldome to be taken in three parts.

1609 J. Dowland tr. A. Ornithoparchus Micrologus 79 A seuenteenth, which is equall to a third, and a tenth.

1694 W. Holder Treat. Harmony v. 102 A Seventeenth Major.

1797 Encycl. Brit. XII. 509/2 The double octave of the third is called a seventeenth.

1872 Musical Standard 3 Aug. 67/1 At this finish, the beautiful effect of the bass in seventeenths with the melody will be noticed.

2012 D. Burton & G. W. Harwood tr. F. Galeazzi Theoret.-Pract. Elem. Music iv. i. 161 By virtue of the physical harmonic phenomenon.., this generates its harmonics (octave, twelfth, and major seventeenth), which are the same as its octave, fifth, and third above and below.

b. An organ stop sounding two octaves and a major third (i.e. a seventeenth) above the pitch of the diapason. Also called tierce (see tierce n.¹ 8(b)).

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > stop > mutation stops > specific

twelfth1613

nineteenth1819

seventeenth1819

quint1855

1819 A. Rees et al. Cyclopædia XXV. at Organ Open Pipes.—The prestant,..open flute, twelfth, fifteenth, tierce or seventeenth, larigot or nineteenth, and twenty-second.

1850 Littell's Living Age 7 Sept. 477/2 Discard your great organ, too loud for our very moderate-sized churches; discard your Sesquialtra and Seventeenth, your Cremona and Vox Humana, utterly useless and disagreeable as they are.

1905 G. A. Audsley Art Organ-building (1965) I. xiii. 568 The old English builders introduced it, along with the Seventeenth, in many of their Mixtures.

1994 Amer. Organist June 46 Sacred Heart Cathedral. Davenport, Iowa... GREAT. 16 Double Diapason. 8 Diapason... 2 Fifteenth. 1³/ ₅ Seventeenth. 1¹/ ₃ Mixture IV.

3. Each of seventeen equal parts into which something is or may be divided; a fraction which, when multiplied by seventeen, gives one.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [noun] > seventeen > a seventeenth

seventeenth1728

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Measure One Paris Ell, and fifteen Seventeenths.

1834 R. Peel Speech 25 Apr. Repeal of Union 17 The Learned Gentleman says, that in contributing two-seventeenths, Ireland was subject to a burden beyond her strength.

1936 Congress. Rec. 80 vi. 6846/2 The gentleman says only one-seventeenth of 1 percent is a very small matter.

2012 Beijing Today 2 Mar. 2/2 The average GDP and labor efficiency of Beijing was only a seventeenth of levels seen in Tokyo.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	seventeenth
释义	seventeenthadj.n. Brit. /ˌsɛvnˈtiːnθ/, /ˈsɛvntiːnθ/, U.S. /ˌsɛvənˈtinθ/, /ˈsɛvənˌtinθ/ Forms: α. Old English seafanteoða (rare), Old English seofanteoþa, Old English seofenteoþa, Old English seofenteoða, Old English seofontegða, Old English seofonteogeþa, Old English seofonteogeða, Old English seofonteoþa, Old English seofonteoða, Old English seofontigeþa, early Middle English seofentuðe, early Middle English syfenteoþe, Middle English seuenteþe, Middle English seventeþ. β. Middle English seuentenþ, Middle English seuentenþe, Middle English seventenyth, Middle English–1500s seuenteneth, Middle English–1500s seuententhe, Middle English–1600s seuententh, 1500s sevynteenth, 1500s–1600s seuenteenth, 1500s–1600s sevententh, 1500s– seventeenth; Scottish pre-1700 seaventeinth, pre-1700 seventeinth, pre-1700 seventent, pre-1700 seventint, pre-1700 sevinteint, pre-1700 sewintent, pre-1700 sewintint, pre-1700 1700s– seventeenth, 1900s seyventeent. γ. late Middle English seuentend (north midlands), late Middle English seuintende (northern); Scottish pre-1700 seuyntend. Also represented by the abbreviations 17th, 17^th, xviith, xvii^th, XVIIth, XVII^th, and variants. Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Cognate with West Frisian santjinde , Middle Dutch seventiende (Dutch zeventiende ), Middle High German sibenzehende (German siebzehnte ), Old Icelandic sjautjánde (Icelandic sautjánde ), Norwegian syttende , Old Swedish siutande (Swedish sjuttonde ), Old Danish sjutende (Danish syttende ) < the Germanic base of seven adj. + the Germanic base of tenth adj. (compare discussion of form types at that entry and the note on ordinal numerals at -teen comb. form).Further forms in Germanic languages. With the cognates cited above compare also (with ordinal form of the first element: see seventh adj.) Old High German sibuntozehanto , (with further suffixation) Middle High German sibenzehendest , and (with suffix substitution) Middle Dutch seventienste (Dutch regional zeventienste ). Notes on forms. With the Old English α. forms in -tēoða compare the β forms at tenth adj. and n.; Old English α. forms such as seofontēgða , seofontēogeða , etc. occur in West Saxon sources showing Anglian (Mercian) influence (compare the α forms at tenth adj. and n.). The later developments (β. and γ. forms) are parallel with those of fifteenth adj. and n. The γ. forms in -d , -de probably reflect Scandinavian influence; compare cognates in the Scandinavian languages cited above and also forms and discussion at tenth adj. and n. The ordinal numeral corresponding to the cardinal numeral seventeen. Also written 17th. A. adj. Next in order after the sixteenth; that is number seventeen in a series. a. With noun expressed. ΚΠ eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) iii. xviii. 238 Þis gefeoht Osweo se cyning..þy seofonteoþan dæge Kalendarum Decembrium [L. septima decima die kalendarum Decembrium] gefremede. c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) l. 2559 Of marz þe seuentenþe day. ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Hunterian) f. 35 (MED) Galiene..seiþ in þe seuentenþe boke..þat þer ben foure commodites..off þe anothomie. a1456 (a1449) J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 424 (MED) Take þe seventeþ in ordre sette Lyneal of þe ABC. 1709 G. Allardes Let. 9 Aug. in I. Newton Corr. (1967) IV. 541 He is now in the 17th year of his age. 1839 H. T. De la Beche Rep. Geol. Cornwall xv. 590 About the end of the seventeenth century. 1862 M. E. Braddon Lady Audley's Secret III. iii. 88 He..married me three months after my seventeenth birthday. 1920 Times 4 May 8/4 A catastrophe that cost him two strokes in the little bunker by the 17th hole. 1966 New Statesman 11 Nov. 718/3 The 17th anniversary of this column. 2015 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 22 Oct. 54/4 We are presented with two great historical moments, one in the seventeenth century, one toward the end of the eighteenth. b. With ellipsis of the noun. ΚΠ OE Rule St. Benet (Corpus Cambr.) xviii. 43 Butan þam [sealmum], þe þær betweox ascyrede synt to oðrum tidsangum, þæt is fram ðam hundteontigeþan and seofonteoðan oð þone hundteontigeðan and seofon and twentigeðan [L. a centesimo septimo decimo usque centesimo uicesimo septimo]. OE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Cambr. Univ. Libr.) i. v. 32 Seuerus casere.., se wæs seofonteogeða fram Agusto. a1425 Rule St. Benet (Lansd.) (1902) 17 (MED) Saie sexe salmis..wen þai ar said, þe hundred seuintende, and þe sextid þe secunde. 1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. ii. 130 The Sails of the Wings are in number twenty... As for their colours,..: The seventeenth is black, having one or two blue spots. 1863 P. Barry Dockyard Econ. 110 Seventeenth in order stand the trenail-houses. 1991 Harper's Mag. Dec. 68/2 At fourteen I was ranked seventeenth in the United States Tennis Association's Western Section. 2002 Chicago Tribune 17 June iii. 9/2 An eighth-minute headed goal by Fernando Morientes, his 17th in 23 games for Spain. B. n. 1. The seventeenth person, thing, or part of a category, series, etc., identified contextually; esp. the seventeenth day of the month, the seventeenth chapter of a book of the Bible (now rare), the seventeenth hole on a golf course, or a person's seventeenth birthday. ΚΠ 1574 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. St. Paule to Galathians xviii. f. 136 For howe can God become indetted vntoo vs, as it is tolde vs in the seuenteenth of Sainct Luke? a1627 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Old Law (1656) v. 59 September the seventeenth. 1845 D. Costello Tour Valley Meuse 171 An edict of the 17th of December 1755 interdicted the Stilters from assembling in the market-place. 1936 News (Adelaide) 10 Sept. 20/4 He had another birdie on the seventeenth after cutting his drive. 2016 @paigehenley14 6 Jan. in twitter.com (accessed 12 Aug. 2020) My 17th on Sunday and my first driving lesson next Thursday, exciting. 2. Music. a. An interval spanning seventeen notes on the diatonic scale; a note sixteen degrees of the scale above or below a given note; (also) a concord of two notes a seventeenth apart. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > interval > [noun] > sixteenth-twentieth nineteenth1597 seventeenth1597 twentieth1609 sixteenth1876 1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke iii. 126 Though I do in it talke of fifteenth and seuententhes, yet are these cordes seldome to be taken in three parts. 1609 J. Dowland tr. A. Ornithoparchus Micrologus 79 A seuenteenth, which is equall to a third, and a tenth. 1694 W. Holder Treat. Harmony v. 102 A Seventeenth Major. 1797 Encycl. Brit. XII. 509/2 The double octave of the third is called a seventeenth. 1872 Musical Standard 3 Aug. 67/1 At this finish, the beautiful effect of the bass in seventeenths with the melody will be noticed. 2012 D. Burton & G. W. Harwood tr. F. Galeazzi Theoret.-Pract. Elem. Music iv. i. 161 By virtue of the physical harmonic phenomenon.., this generates its harmonics (octave, twelfth, and major seventeenth), which are the same as its octave, fifth, and third above and below. b. An organ stop sounding two octaves and a major third (i.e. a seventeenth) above the pitch of the diapason. Also called tierce (see tierce n.¹ 8(b)). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > stop > mutation stops > specific twelfth1613 nineteenth1819 seventeenth1819 quint1855 1819 A. Rees et al. Cyclopædia XXV. at Organ Open Pipes.—The prestant,..open flute, twelfth, fifteenth, tierce or seventeenth, larigot or nineteenth, and twenty-second. 1850 Littell's Living Age 7 Sept. 477/2 Discard your great organ, too loud for our very moderate-sized churches; discard your Sesquialtra and Seventeenth, your Cremona and Vox Humana, utterly useless and disagreeable as they are. 1905 G. A. Audsley Art Organ-building (1965) I. xiii. 568 The old English builders introduced it, along with the Seventeenth, in many of their Mixtures. 1994 Amer. Organist June 46 Sacred Heart Cathedral. Davenport, Iowa... GREAT. 16 Double Diapason. 8 Diapason... 2 Fifteenth. 1³/ ₅ Seventeenth. 1¹/ ₃ Mixture IV. 3. Each of seventeen equal parts into which something is or may be divided; a fraction which, when multiplied by seventeen, gives one. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [noun] > seventeen > a seventeenth seventeenth1728 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Measure One Paris Ell, and fifteen Seventeenths. 1834 R. Peel Speech 25 Apr. Repeal of Union 17 The Learned Gentleman says, that in contributing two-seventeenths, Ireland was subject to a burden beyond her strength. 1936 Congress. Rec. 80 vi. 6846/2 The gentleman says only one-seventeenth of 1 percent is a very small matter. 2012 Beijing Today 2 Mar. 2/2 The average GDP and labor efficiency of Beijing was only a seventeenth of levels seen in Tokyo. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.eOE
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