senevey

• senvey, senevei, seneveye, senvy, synbey, senebeye, senvoy, synvey, sine-weie, synewey, synevey, senefee

From Old French senevé, senevei, from Vulgar Latin *sināpātium.

• IPA^(key): /ˌsɛn(ə)ˈvɛi̯/, /ˈsɛn(ə)vɛi̯/

senevey (uncountable)

1. Mustard or its seed, often used in cuisine and medicine.

   • a. 1382, John Wycliffe, “Matheu 13:31-32”, in Wycliffe's Bible:

     Another parable Jheſus puttide forth to hem, and ſeide, The kyngdom of heuenes is lijk to a corn of ſeneuey, which a man took, and ſewe in his feeld. / Which is the leeste of alle ſeedis, but whanne it hath woxen, it is the moste of alle wortis, and is maad a tre; ſo that briddis of the eir comen, and dwellen in the bowis therof.

     Jesus put another parable in front of them; he said: "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a mustard seed that a person took and sowed in their field. / It is the smallest of all the seeds, but when it grows, it is the largest of all the plants; it becomes a tree, so the birds of the air come and nest in its branches."

• English: senvy (obsolete)

• “sen(e)vei, n.” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-04-24.