dieciséis

Asturian

Asturian cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : dieciséis     Ordinal : decimosestu

Alternative forms

• selce

Etymology

From diez (“ten”) + y (“and”) + seis (“six”).

Numeral

dieciséis (indeclinable)

1. sixteen

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Spanish

Spanish numbers ^(edit)

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Cardinal: dieciséis     Ordinal: decimosexto     Fractional: dieciseisavo

Etymology

From Old Spanish dizeseis, diezeseis (literally “ten and six”), an analytical form (compare Galician dezaseis, Portuguese dezesseis, dezasseis) replacing Old Spanish seze, sedze, from Latin sēdecim (compare Catalan setze, French seize, Italian sedici).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /djeθiˈseis/, [d̪je.θiˈsei̯s]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /djesiˈseis/, [d̪je.siˈsei̯s]

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Numeral

dieciséis

1. sixteen

   Synonym: sece (obsolete)

Derived terms

• dieciseisavo

Descendants

• → Tagalog: disiseis

Further reading

• “dieciséis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014