sextus

See also: Sextus

Latin

Latin numbers ^(edit)

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Cardinal: sex     Ordinal: sextus     Adverbial: sexiēs, sexiēns, sextō     Proportional: sexuplus, sextuplus, sexcuplus     Multiplier: sexuplex, sextuplex, sexcuplex, sēplex, secuplex     Distributive: sēnus     Collective: sēniō     Fractional: sextāns

Alternative forms

• 6tus

Etymology

From sex (“six”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsek.stus/, [ˈs̠ɛks̠t̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsek.stus/, [ˈsɛkst̪us]

Numeral

sextus (feminine sexta, neuter sextum); first/second-declension numeral

1. sixth

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	sextus	sexta	sextum		sextī	sextae	sexta
genitive	sextī	sextae	sextī		sextōrum	sextārum	sextōrum
dative	sextō	sextae	sextō		sextīs
accusative	sextum	sextam	sextum		sextōs	sextās	sexta
ablative	sextō	sextā	sextō		sextīs
vocative	sexte	sexta	sextum		sextī	sextae	sexta

Derived terms

• quīnisextus
• sexta
• sextārius
• sextīlis

Descendants

• → English: sexto, sextate
• Catalan: sesta
• Galician: sesta
• Italian: sesto
• Old French: siste
• Portuguese: sexto, sesta
• Sicilian: sestu
• Spanish: sexto, sesma, siesta

References

• “sextus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sextus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sextus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• sextus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • I have not seen you for five years: quinque anni sunt or sextus annus est, cum te non vidi
    
  • (ambiguous) he has been absent five years: quinque annos or sextum (iam) annum abest
    
  • (ambiguous) consul for the sixth, seventh time: sextum (Pis. 9. 20), septimum consul
    
• “sextus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray