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