sessenta

Portuguese

Portuguese numbers ^(edit)

		600
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		6
Cardinal: sessenta     Ordinal: sexagésimo     Ordinal abbreviation: 60.º, 60º     Fractional: sexagésimo, sessenta avos
Portuguese Wikipedia article on 60

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese sesaenta, from Latin sexāgintā, from Proto-Indo-European *sweḱsḱomt, from earlier *swéḱs-dḱomt (“six-ten”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /seˈsẽ.tɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /seˈsẽ.tɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /seˈsẽ.ta/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /sɨˈsẽ.tɐ/

• Audio (Portugal (Alentejo)):

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• Rhymes: -ẽtɐ
• Hyphenation: ses‧sen‧ta

Numeral

sessenta m or f

1. sixty

Noun

sessenta m (plural sessentas)

1. sixty(Should we delete⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)

Related terms

• seis

Further reading

• “sessenta”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “sessenta”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026