seofonteoþa

From Proto-Germanic *sebundô tehundô.

• IPA^(key): /ˈse͜o.fonˌte͜oː.θɑ/, [ˈse͜o.vonˌte͜oː.ðɑ]

seofontēoþa

1. seventeenth

seofontēoþa

1. seventeenth
   • late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History

     Ðā wæs ymb hundtēontiġ wintra 7 nigan 7 hundeahtatiġ wintra frām Drihtnes mennisċnysse, þæt Seuerus casere, sē was Æffrica cynnes, of þǣre byriġ ðe Lepti hātte,-sē was seofonteoġeða frām Agusto—þat hē rīċe onfeng, ⁊ þæt hæfde seofontȳne ġēar.

     It was about one hundred eighty-nine years after the Lord's incarnation that Emperor Severus, who was African, from the city known as Leptis—the seventeenth [emperor] from Augustus—took the throne, and held it for seventeen years.

• English: seventeenth