seneca

Other forms of seneca

plural

senecas·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about seneca

What does seneca mean?

seneca means "Roman statesman and philosopher who was an advisor to Nero; his nine extant tragedies are modeled on Greek tragedies (circa 4 BC - 65 AD)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in seneca?

seneca has 3 syllables: sen-e-ca. The stress falls on "sen". In IPA it is /ˈsɛnəkə/.

What is another word for seneca?

Close synonyms include Lucius Annaeus Seneca. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is seneca a common word?

seneca is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.