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Latin
Etymology
From sexta (“sixth”) + -ula (forms a diminutive).
Noun
sextula f (genitive sextulae); first declension
- the sixth part of an uncia, the seventy-second part of an as
Declension
First-declension noun.
References
- “sextula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sextula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sextula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “sextula”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “sextula”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin