septet

English

Alternative forms

septette

Etymology

PIE word
*septḿ̥

From Latin septem (“seven”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sɛpˈtɛt/
Audio (US): (file)
Rhymes: -ɛt

**English numbers ^(edit)**
← 6	7	8 →
Cardinal: seven Ordinal: seventh Abbreviated ordinal: 7th 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 Number of days: week

Noun

septet (plural septets)

A group of seven, particularly
1. (music) A group of seven musicians.
  The Lindsey Septet performs at Carnegie Hall this evening.
  - 2025 July 1, Maria Sherman, “BTS will return in spring 2026 with a new album and world tour”, in Associated Press‎^[1]:
    The K-pop septet BTS will return in spring 2026 with a new album and world tour.
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

Synonyms

septuor, heptad, septuplet
(poetry): heptastich

Hyponyms

septennium (years)

Translations

group of seven

Finnish: septetti (fi), seitsikko (fi)
Hebrew: שִׁבְעַת m (Shiv'at)
Italian: settimino m
Maori: tokowhitu
Spanish: septeto (es) m
Swedish: septett (sv) c

musical composition for seven instruments or seven voices

Hungarian: szeptett

See also

Thesaurus:number

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Septett.

Noun

septet n (plural septete)

septet

Declension

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