soixante

See also: souaixante

French

French numbers ^(edit)

		600[a], [b]
←  50	←  59	60	61  → [a], [b]	70  → [a], [b]
		6
Cardinal: soixante     Ordinal: soixantième     Ordinal abbreviation: 60e, (now nonstandard) 60ème
French Wikipedia article on 60

Etymology

Inherited from Old French soissante, seixante, from Latin sexāgintā, from Proto-Indo-European *sweḱsḱomt, from earlier *swéḱs-dḱomt (“six-ten”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /swa.sɑ̃t/

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• Rhymes: -ɑ̃t

Numeral

soixante (invariable)

1. sixty

Related terms

• six

Descendants

• Louisiana Creole: swasant

Further reading

• “soixante”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.