dezesseis

Portuguese

Portuguese cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : dezesseis     Ordinal : décimo sexto
Portuguese Wikipedia article on dezesseis

Alternative forms

• dezasseis (Portugal)

obsolete and nonstandard spellings

• desaseis (obsolete)
• desaseys (obsolete, rare)
• desasseis (obsolete)
• deseseis (obsolete)
• desesseis (obsolete, now a common misspelling)
• dezaseis (obsolete)
• dezaseys (obsolete)
• dezasseys (obsolete, rare)
• dezeseis (obsolete, now a common misspelling)
• dez e seis (obsolete, rare)
• dez e seys (obsolete, rare)
• dizesseis (eye dialect, Brazil)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese dez (“ten”) + e (“and”) + seys (“six”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: de‧zes‧seis
• IPA^(key): /ˌde.ze.ˈsejs/, /ˌd͡ʒi.ze.ˈsejs/, /d͡ze.ˈsejs/, /ˌd͡ʒi.ze.ˈsejʃ/, /ˌdi.ze.ˈsejʒ/, /ze.ˈsejs/
• Rhymes: -ejʃ

Numeral

dezesseis m or f

1. (Brazil) sixteen
   • 2005, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter e o Enigma do Príncipe [Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince] (Harry Potter; 6), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, page 271:

     Você tem dezesseis anos...

     You are sixteen years old...

Noun

dezesseis m (invariable)

1. (Brazil) sixteen