Seneca
ɪ noun, plural Sen·e·cas ( especially collectively ) Sen·e·ca for 1.
1.
a member of the largest tribe of the iroquois Confederacy of North American Indians, formerly inhabiting western New York and being conspicuous in the wars south and west of Lake Erie.
2.
an Iroquoian language of the Seneca, Onondaga, and Cayuga tribes.
Origin:
< New York Dutch Sennecaas, etc., orig. applied to the Oneida and, more generally, to all the Upper Iroquois (as opposed to the Mohawk), probably < an unattested Mahican name
< New York Dutch Sennecaas, etc., orig. applied to the Oneida and, more generally, to all the Upper Iroquois (as opposed to the Mohawk), probably < an unattested Mahican name
Related forms
Sen·e·can, adjective
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Seneca1 (ˈsɛnɪkə) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n , -cas, -ca | |
| 1. | a member of a North American Indian people formerly living south of Lake Ontario; one of the Iroquois peoples |
| 2. | the language of this people, belonging to the Iroquoian family |
| [C19: from Dutch Sennecaas (plural), probably of Algonquian origin] | |
| Seneca2 (ˈsɛnɪkə) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | Lucius Annaeus (əˈniːəs), called the Younger. ?4 |
| 2. | his father, Marcus (ˈmɑːkəs) or Lucius Annaeus, called the Elder or the Rhetorician. ?55 |
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Seneca
1616, from Du. Sennecas, collective name for the upper N.Y. Iroquois tribes, of uncertain origin, perhaps from a Mahican name for the Oneida or their village. Earlier sinnekens, senakees; form probably infl. by the name of the ancient Roman philosopher.
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