senvy

English

Etymology

From Middle English senvey, senevey, from Old French senevé, senevei, from Vulgar Latin *sināpātium, from Latin sināpi (→ Old French senef), from Ancient Greek σίνᾱπι (sínāpi).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsɛnvi/, /ˈsɛmvi/

Noun

senvy (usually uncountable, plural senvies)

  1. (obsolete) The mustard plant or its seed.
    • 1759, Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceau (tr. John Mills), A Practical Treatise of Husbandry:
      The wheat seemed to have disappeared, to make room for a prodigious quantity of senvy which looked extremely well.

Middle English

Noun

senvy

  1. alternative form of senevey
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