sexton

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From Old French segrestien, from Medieval Latin sacristanus, based on Latin sacer (sacred). Doublet of sacristan.

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sexton (plural sextons)

  1. A church official who looks after a church building and its graveyard and may act as a gravedigger and bell ringer.
  2. A sexton beetle.

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Swedish

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Swedish cardinal numbers
 <  15 16 17  > 
    Cardinal : sexton
    Ordinal : sextonde
    Fractional : sextondel

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From Old Swedish sæxtan, siæxtān, from Old Norse sextán, from Proto-Germanic *sehstehun.

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sexton

  1. sixteen

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