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sixty

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15
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5
Pronunciation
/ˈsɪksti/

Definition of sixty

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

num

  1. The cardinal number occurring after fifty-nine and before sixty-one, represented in Roman numerals as LX and in Arabic numerals as 60.
    “[…]the remaining three hundred and sixty words were then vetted with a battery of references. Six potential Mountweazels emerged.”
    “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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num

  1. The cardinal number occurring after fifty-nine and before sixty-one, represented in Roman numerals as LX and in Arabic numerals as 60.
    “[…]the remaining three hundred and sixty words were then vetted with a battery of references. Six potential Mountweazels emerged.”
    “The first sixty argam form the basis for my own sexagesimal use, in the accounting of my business and in the dimensioning of buildings.”

noun

  1. A commercial lasting 60 seconds.
    “[…] 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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Etymology

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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