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sixty

English

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

Etymology

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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).

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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.
    • 2014 November 24, Michael Thomas De Vlieger, “Multiplication Tables of Various Bases”, in The Number Base‎[2], archived from the original on 6 February 2023, page 43:
      The first sixty argam form the basis for my own sexagesimal use, in the accounting of my business and in the dimensioning of buildings.

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Noun

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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.

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Hawaiian Creole

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Etymology

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Derived from English sixty.

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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[3], 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

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6
    Cardinal: sixty
    Ordinal: sixtithe

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈsikstiː/, /ˈsɛkstiː/

Numeral

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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)
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Descendants

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  • English: sixty
  • Scots: sexty, saxty

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