sescenti

Latin

Latin cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : sescentī     Ordinal : sescentēsimus     Distributive : sescēnī

Alternative forms

• Symbol: DC

Etymology

From sex (“six”) + centum (“hundred”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /sesˈken.tiː/, [sɛsˈkɛn.tiː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /seˈʃen.ti/

Numeral

sescentī m pl (feminine sescentae, neuter sescenta); first/second declension -->

1. (cardinal) six hundred; 600

Inflection

First/second declension, no singular.

Number	Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
nominative	sescentī	sescentae	sescenta
genitive	sescentōrum	sescentārum	sescentōrum
dative	sescentīs
accusative	sescentōs	sescentās	sescenta
ablative	sescentīs
vocative	sescentī	sescentae	sescenta

Usage notes

Used as a plural adjective. For more information see Appendix:Latin cardinal numbers.

Descendants

• Italian: seicento
• Portuguese: seiscentos
• Spanish: seiscientos

See also

• Appendix:Latin cardinal numbers

References

• sescenti in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sescenti in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “sescenti” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)