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Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From sex (“six”).
Pronunciation
Numeral
sextus (feminine sexta, neuter sextum); first/second-declension numeral
- sixth
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
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, 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