diecisiete

Meaning

seventeen

Concepts

seventeen

seventeenth

Hyphenated as

die‧ci‧sie‧te

Pronounced as (IPA)

/djeθiˈsjete/

Etymology

From diez (“ten”) + y (“and”) + siete (“seven”).

Sentences

Su obispado había durado diecisiete años .

His bishopric had lasted seventeen years.

Fue hija número diecisiete del duque Roberto I de Parma.

She was the seventeenth daughter of Duke Robert I of Parma.

Con diecisiete años , hizo un retrato en bajorrelieve de Lenin.

At seventeen, he made a bas-relief portrait of Lenin.

Diecisiete egresados de la Universidad del Cauca han ocupado la jefatura del Estado Colombiano .

Seventeen graduates of the University of Cauca have held the leadership of the Colombian State.