sexaginta

Latin

Latin cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : sexāgintā     Ordinal : sexāgēsimus     Adverbial : sexāgiēns     Distributive : sexāgēnī

Alternative forms

• Symbol: LX

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *sweḱsḱomt, from earlier *swéḱs-dḱomt (“six-ten”). Cognate with Ancient Greek ἑξήκοντα (hexḗkonta).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /sek.saːˈɡin.taː/, [s̠ɛks̠äːˈɡɪn̪t̪äː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sek.saˈd͡ʒin.ta/, [seɡzäˈd͡ʒin̪t̪ä]

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Numeral

sexāgintā (indeclinable)

1. sixty; 60

Derived terms

• duodēsexāgintā
• ūndēsexāgintā

Related terms

• sex

Descendants

• Asturian: sesenta
• Catalan seixanta
• French: soixante
• Friulian: sessante
• Galician: sesenta
• Italian: sessanta
• Ladin: sessanta
• Norman: sessànte, souaixante
• Occitan: seissanta

• Old French soissante
• Portuguese: sessenta
• Romansch: sessanta, sissonta, sissànta, sesaunta, sesanta
• Sardinian: sessanta
• Sicilian: sissanta
• Spanish: sesenta
• Venetian: sesanta
• Walloon: swessante

See also

• Appendix:Latin cardinal numerals

References

• “sexaginta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sexaginta”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sexaginta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.