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septet

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Etymology

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From Latin septem (“seven”).

Pronunciation

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English numbers (edit)
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    Cardinal: seven
    Ordinal: seventh
    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

Noun

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septet (plural septets)

  1. A group of seven, particularly
    1. (music) A group of seven musicians.
      The Lindsey Septet performs at Carnegie Hall this evening.
    2. (music) A composition for a group of seven musicians.
      • 1871 December, Robert Browning, Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, Saviour of Society, London: Smith, Elder and Co., →OCLC, page 124:
        [W]hoso rhymes a sonnet pays a tax, / Who paints a landscape dips brush at his cost, / Who scores a septett true for strings and wind / Mulcted must be—else how should I impose / Properly, attitudinize aright, / Did such conflicting claims as these divert / Hohenstiel-Schwangau from observing me?
    3. (poetry) A set of seven lines.
      Coordinate terms: couplet, tercet, quatrain, cinquain, sestet, octave

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from German Septett.

Noun

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septet n (plural septete)

  1. septet

Declension

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singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative septet septetul septete septetele
genitive-dative septet septetului septete septetelor
vocative septetule septetelor
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