sexaginta

Latin

Latin numbers ^(edit)

		600[a], [b]
←  50	←  59	LX 60	61  →	70  →
		6
Cardinal: sexāgintā     Ordinal: sexāgēsimus     Adverbial: sexāgiēns, sexāgiēs     Distributive: sexāgēnus

Alternative forms

• Symbol: LX

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Numeral

sexāgintā (indeclinable)

1. sixty; 60

Derived terms

• duodēsexāgintā
• ūndēsexāgintā

Related terms

• sex

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: sessanta
  • Sicilian: sissanta
• Padanian:
  • Friulian: sessante
  • Ladin: sessanta
  • Romansch: sessanta, sissonta, sissànta, sesaunta, sesanta
  • Venetian: sesanta
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: soissante
    • French: soixante
  • Norman: sessànte, souaixante
  • Walloon: swessante
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: seixanta
  • Occitan: seissanta
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: sesenta
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: sessaenta, sesaenta
    • Galician: sesenta
    • Portuguese: sessenta
  • Old Spanish: sessaenta
    • Spanish: sesenta
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: sessanta

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.