sexto

See also: Sexto

English

Etymology

From Latin sextus (“sixth”).

Noun

sexto (plural sextos)

1. A book consisting of sheets each of which is folded into six leaves.

See also

English paper and book sizes

Latin	folio	quarto	sexto	octavo	duodecimo	sextodecimo	octodecimo	vicesimo-quarto	trigesimo-secundo	quadragesimo-octavo	sexagesimo-quarto
ALA	F	Q		O	D	S	T		Tt	Fe	Sf
height (cm)	> 30	25-30	25-30	20-25	17.5-20	15-17.5	12.5-15	12.5-15	10-12.5	7.5-10	< 7.5
printers'	folio	quarto	sixmo	octavo	twelvemo	sixteenmo	eighteenmo	twenty-fourmo	thirty-twomo	forty-eightmo	sixty-fourmo
abbrev.	fo or f	4to	6to or 6mo	8vo	12mo	16mo	18mo	24mo	32mo	48mo	64mo
abbrev.	2º	4º	6º	8º	12º	16º	18º	24º	32º	48º	64º
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “sexto”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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French

Etymology

Blend of sexe +‎ texto

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

sexto m (plural sextos)

1. sext

Adverb

sexto

1. sixthly

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Galician

Galician numbers ^(edit)

	60[a], [b]
←  5	6	7  →
Cardinal: seis     Ordinal: sexto     Ordinal abbreviation: 6º     Multiplier (standard): séxtuplo     Multiplier (reintegrationist): sêxtuplo
Galician Wikipedia article on 6

Alternative forms

• 6º m, 6ª f (abbreviation)

Etymology

From Latin sextus.

Adjective

sexto (feminine sexta, masculine plural sextos, feminine plural sextas)

1. sixth

Noun

sexto m (plural sextos)

1. sixth

Further reading

• “sexto”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024

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Latin

Numeral

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of sextus

References

• “sexto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sexto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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Portuguese

Portuguese numbers ^(edit)

	60
←  5	6	7  →
Cardinal: seis     Ordinal: sexto     Ordinal abbreviation: 6.º     Multiplier: sêxtuplo     Fractional: sexto     Group: sexteto
Portuguese Wikipedia article on 6

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese sexto, seisto, sesto, from Latin sextus.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈses.tu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈses.tu/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈseʃ.tu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈses.to/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsɐjʃ.tu/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsɐjʃ.tu/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsejʃ.tu/
  • (Central Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsejʃ.tu/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈseʃ.tu/

• Homophone: cesto
• Hyphenation: sex‧to

Adjective

sexto (feminine sexta, masculine plural sextos, feminine plural sextas)

1. (ordinal number) sixth

Noun

sexto m (plural sextos)

1. (fractional number) sixth (one of six parts of a whole)

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Spanish

Spanish numbers ^(edit)

	60
←  5	6	7  → [a], [b]
Cardinal: seis     Ordinal: sexto     Ordinal abbreviation: 6.º     Multiplier: séxtuple     Fractional: sexto
Spanish Wikipedia article on 6

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin sextus, along with several other ordinal numerals (segundo, quinto, séptimo), a tendency shared with many other Romance languages. Compare the inherited feminine doublet, siesta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈseɡsto/ [ˈseɣ̞s.t̪o]

• IPA^(key): /ˈsesto/ [ˈses.t̪o]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: sex‧to

Abbreviations

• 6.º m
• 6.ª f

Adjective

sexto (feminine sexta, masculine plural sextos, feminine plural sextas)

1. (ordinal number) sixth

   Synonym: seisavo

Derived terms

• bajo sexto
• sexto sentido

Related terms

• siesta

Noun

sexto m (plural sextos)

1. (fractional number) sixth

Further reading

• “sexto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28