Seofon

Secondo il Dizionario dell'Inglese Antico:

seofon

Add: when used without an immediately following noun the nominative is seofon or seofone. (1) :-- .vii. fiscas sélaes fyllu, sifu sélas hronaes fyllu, sifu hronas hualaes fyllu, An. Ox. 54, 1.Þǽra eádigra seofon slǽpera ðrowung, Hml. S. 23, 1. Ne secge ic þé oð seofon (seofun, R., seofo. L.) síðas, ac oð seofon hundseofontigon síðon, Mt. 18, 22. (1 a) in combination with decades :-- Twá hundredum and seofon and sixtigum fíftýne geáres getel, An. Ox. 3036. (2) :--Þǽra diácona wæs se forma Stephanus. . . þá oðre six wǽron . . . Ðás seofon hí gecuron, Hml. Th. i. 44. 18. Fífe lǽgun . . . swilce seofene eác, eorlas Anláfes, Chr. 937; P. 108, 11. Sume menn þisra seofona héddon, Hml. S. 23, 137. (2 a) where age is marked :-- Wæs án twelf geára, óþer nigan geára, and se þridda seofan geára, Shrn. 58, 12. (3) forming part of an ordinal :-- On ðǽm siofan-and-hundsiofantiogoðan psalme, Past. 465, 4. Se seofan-and-hundeahtatigeða, R. Ben. 37, 18. (4) the abstract number seven :-- Twía seofon beóð feówertýne, Angl. viii. 302, 45. seofon