sixty

English

English numbers ^(edit)

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		6
Cardinal: sixty     Ordinal: sixtieth     Abbreviated ordinal: 60th     Adverbial: sixty times     Multiplier: sixtyfold     Germanic collective: shock

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English sixty, sexty, Old English sixtiġ, from Proto-Germanic *sehs tigiwiz (“sixty”), equivalent to six +‎ -ty. Cognate with Scots sexty, saxty (“sixty”), Saterland Frisian säkstich (“sixty”), West Frisian sechstich (“sixty”), Dutch zestig (“sixty”), German Low German sesstig (“sixty”), German sechzig (“sixty”), Swedish sextio (“sixty”), Norwegian seksti (“sixty”), Icelandic sextíu (“sixty”). Compare also Sanskrit षष्टि (ṣaṣṭi).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪksti/
• (General American) enPR: sĭksʹtē, IPA^(key): /ˈsɪksti/

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• Rhymes: -ɪkstɪ, -ɪksti
• Hyphenation: six‧ty

Numeral

sixty

2. The cardinal number occurring after fifty-nine and before sixty-one, represented in Roman numerals as LX and in Arabic numerals as 60.

   Synonym: threescore (archaic)

   • 2005 August 21, Henry Alford, “Not a Word”, in The New Yorker‎^[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 9 March 2017:

     […] the remaining three hundred and sixty words were then vetted with a battery of references. Six potential Mountweazels emerged.

Derived terms

• like sixty
• north of sixty
• screaming sixties
• shrieking sixties
• sixty cycle hum
• sixty-eighter
• sixty-four dollar question
• sixty-fourmo
• sixty-four thousand dollar question
• sixty-something
• star sixty-nine

Translations

cardinal number

• Afrikaans: sestig (af)
• Albanian: gjashtëdhjetë (sq)
• Amharic: ሥልሳ (śəlsa), ስልሳ (səlsa), (numeral: ፷ (60))
• Arabic: سِتِّينَ (sittīna), (only nominative, formal) سِتُّونَ (sittūna)

  Egyptian Arabic: ستين (sittīn)

• Aramaic:

  Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} שתין c (shtīn)

  Syriac: ^{(please verify)} ܫܬܝܢ c (shtīn)

• Armenian: վաթսուն (hy) (vatʻsun)
• Aromanian: shaidzãts, shaidzãtsi
• Assamese: ষাঠি (xathi)
• Asturian: sesenta (ast)
• Avar: лъабкъого (lˢabqxʼogo)
• Azerbaijani: altmış (az)
• Bactrian: χοατο (khoato)
• Bashkir: алтмыш (altmış)
• Basque: hirurogei (eu)
• Belarusian: шэ́сцьдзесят (be) (šéscʹdzjesjat)
• Bengali: ষাট (bn) (śaṭ)
• Bikol Central: anom na pulo
• Breton: tri-ugent (br)
• Bulgarian: шестдесе́т (šestdesét)
• Burmese: ခြောက်ဆယ် (hkraukhcai)
• Carpathian Rusyn: шістдеся́ть (šistdesjátʹ)
• Catalan: seixanta (ca)
• Cebuano: kan-oman
• Central Dusun: onom nohopod
• Chechen: кхузткъа (quztqʼa)
• Cherokee: ᏑᏓᎵᏍᎪᎯ (sudalisgohi)
• Chichewa: makumi asanu n'limodzi
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 六十 (zh) (liùshí)

  Wu: 六十 (⁸loq-zeq)

• Chuukese: wone
• Chuvash: утмӑл (utmăl)
• Crimean Tatar: altmış
• Czech: šedesát (cs)
• Danish: tres (da), seksti
• Dhivehi: ހަށްޓި (haṣ̊ṭi), ފަސްދޮޅަސް (fasdoḷas)
• Dutch: zestig (nl) f
• Dzongkha: དྲུག་ཅུ (drug cu)
• Esperanto: sesdek (eo)
• Estonian: kuuskümmend (et)
• Farefare: pisyoobɩ
• Fijian: onosagavulu
• Finnish: kuusikymmentä (fi)
• French: soixante (fr) m
• Friulian: sessante
• Galician: sesenta (gl)
• Georgian: სამოცი (samoci)
• German: sechzig (de) f
• Gothic: 𐍃𐌰𐌹𐌷𐍃 𐍄𐌹𐌲𐌾𐌿𐍃 (saihs tigjus)
• Greek: εξήντα (el) (exínta)

  Ancient: ἑξήκοντα (hexḗkonta), ξ΄ (numeral)

• Hausa: sìttin
• Hawaiian: kanaono
• Hawaiian Creole: sixty
• Hebrew: שִׁשִּׁים m or f (shishím)
• Hiligaynon: kan-uman
• Hindi: साठ (hi) (sāṭh)
• Hungarian: hatvan (hu)
• Icelandic: sextíu (is)
• Ido: sisadek (io)
• Ilocano: innem a pulo
• Indonesian: enam puluh (id)
• Ingrian: kuuskymment
• Interlingua: sexanta
• Irish: seasca (ga)
• Italian: sessanta (it)
• Japanese: 六十 (ja) (ろくじゅう, rokujū, むそ, muso)
• Javanese: sawidak (jv)
• Kapampangan: anam a pulu
• Karachay-Balkar: алтмыш (altmış)
• Kazakh: алпыс (kk) (alpys)
• Khakas: алтон (alton)
• Khalaj: altmış
• Khmer: ហុកសិប (km) (hok səp)
• Komi-Permyak: кватьдас (kvaťdas)
• Korean: 육십(六十) (ko) (yuksip), 예순 (ko) (yesun), 륙십 (ko) (ryuksip) (North Korea)
• Kumyk: алтмыш (altmış)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: شەست (şest)

• Kyrgyz: алтымыш (ky) (altımış)
• Ladin: sessanta
• Ladino:

  Hebrew: סיסינטה

  Roman: sesenta

• Lakota: wikčémna šákpe
• Lao: ຫົກສິບ (hok sip)
• Latin: sexaginta (la)
• Latvian: sešdesmit (lv)
• Ligurian: sciûscianta
• Lithuanian: šešiasdešimt (lt)
• Livonian: kūžkimdõ
• Lombard: please add this translation if you can
• Louisiana Creole French: swasant
• Luxembourgish: siechzeg
• Macedonian: ше́есет (šéeset)
• Malay: enam puluh (ms)
• Malayalam: അറുപത് (ml) (aṟupatŭ)
• Maltese: sittin
• Manchu: ᠨᡳᠨᠵᡠ (ninju)
• Manx: tree feed
• Maori: ono ngahuru, ono tekau (mi)
• Marathi: साठ (sāṭh)
• Middle English: sixty
• Mongolian: жар (mn) (žar)
• Nauruan: añama
• Navajo: hastą́diin
• Norman: sessànte (Guernsey), souaixante (Jersey)
• Northern Mansi: ^{(please verify)} хо̄тпан (hōtpan)
• Norwegian: seksti (no)
• Occitan: seissanta (oc)
• Ojibwe: ningodwaasimidana
• Old Church Slavonic: шесть десѧтъ (šestĭ desętŭ)
• Old English: sixtiġ
• Old Turkic: 𐰞𐱄𐰢𐱀 (l¹t¹mš /⁠altmïš⁠/)
• Oromo: jaatama
• Ottoman Turkish: آلتمش (altmış)
• Pannonian Rusyn: шейдзешат (šejdzešat)
• Pennsylvania German: sechzich
• Persian: شصت (fa) (šast)
• Piedmontese: sessanta
• Polish: sześćdziesiąt (pl), kopa (pl) f (colloquial)
• Portuguese: sessenta (pt)
• Quechua: suqta chunka
• Romagnol: ṣànta
• Romanian: șaizeci (ro)
• Romansch: sessanta, sissonta, sissànta, sesaunta, sesanta
• Russian: шестьдеся́т (ru) (šestʹdesját)
• Samoan: onosefulu
• Sanskrit: षष्टि (sa) (ṣaṣṭi)
• Santali: ᱛᱩᱨᱩᱭ ᱜᱮᱞ (turuy gel)
• Sardinian: sessanta
• Scottish Gaelic: (old system) trì fichead, (new system) seasgad
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: шездесет

  Roman: šezdeset

• Shan: ႁူၵ်းသိပ်း (húuk síp)
• Shor: алтон (alton)
• Sicilian: sissanta (scn)
• Sinhalese: හැට (hæṭa)
• Slovak: šesťdesiat (sk)
• Slovene: šestdeset (sl)
• Southern Altai: алтан (altan)
• Spanish: sesenta (es)
• Swahili: sitini (sw)
• Swedish: sextio (sv)
• Tagalog: animnapu
• Tahitian: ono 'ahuru
• Tajik: шаст (tg) (šast)
• Tatar: алтмыш (tt) (altmış)
• Telugu: అరవై (te) (aravai)
• Thai: หกสิบ (th) (hòk-sìp)
• Tocharian B: ṣkaska
• Tok Pisin: sikisti, sikispela ten
• Tongan: onongofulu
• Turkish: altmış (tr)
• Turkmen: altmyş (tk)
• Tuvan: алдан (aldan)
• Udmurt: куатьтон (kuaťton)
• Ukrainian: шістьдеся́т (šistʹdesját)
• Unami: kwëtash txinxke
• Urdu: ساٹھ (sāṭh)
• Uyghur: ئاتمىش (atmish)
• Uzbek: oltmish (uz)
• Venetan: sesanta (vec)
• Vietnamese: sáu mươi (vi)
• Volapük: mäldeg (vo)
• Waray-Waray: kaunman
• Welsh: trigain (cy) (vigesimal, traditional), chwe deg (decimal)
• West Frisian: sechstich
• Yakut: алта уон (alta uon)
• Yiddish: זעכציק (zekhtsik)
• Yucatec Maya: óoxkʼáal
• Yup'ik: yuinaak pingayun, pingayun ipiaq

See also

• Previous: fifty-nine, fifty
• Next: sixty-one, seventy
• sexagesimal

Noun

sixty (plural sixties)

1. (broadcasting) A commercial lasting 60 seconds.

   Coordinate term: thirty

   • 2014, Jules Witcover, No Way to Pick a President:

     […] instead of thirties [thirty-second commercials], they buy sixties, which cost twice as much. They spend more on filming it than they need to; they buy a lot of ads that are garbage and don't really say anything, just to fill up the space.

Anagrams

• xysti

Hawaiian Creole

Etymology

Derived from English sixty.

Numeral

sixty

1. sixty (the cardinal number occurring after fifty-nine and before sixty-one, represented in Roman numerals as LX and in Arabic numerals as 60)
   • 2000, “Matthew 13”, in Joseph Grimes, transl., Da Jesus Book: Hawaii Pidgin New Testament‎^[2], Wycliffe Bible Translators, →ISBN, page 106:

     Some seed, dey make thirty times mo seed, some odda seed make sixty times mo seed, an odda even make hundred times mo seed.

     Still other seeds fell on good soil, and produced a harvest—some one hundred, some sixty, and some thirty times what had been planted.

Middle English

Middle English numbers ^(edit)

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	6
Cardinal: sixty     Ordinal: sixtithe

Alternative forms

• cexty, sexti, sexty, sixti, syxty, zixti
• (early) sextiȝ, sixtiȝ

Etymology

From Old English sixtiġ, from Proto-Germanic *sehs tigiwiz; equivalent to six +‎ -ty.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsikstiː/, /ˈsɛkstiː/

Numeral

sixty

1. sixty (the cardinal number occurring after fifty-nine and before sixty-one, represented in Roman numerals as LX and in Arabic numerals as 60)

Descendants

• English: sixty
  • Hawaiian Creole: sixty
• Scots: sexty, saxty

References

• “sixtī, num.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.