different between sextants vs sextans

English

Noun

sextants

1. plural of sextant

French

Noun

sextants m

1. plural of sextant

English

Etymology

From Latin sext?ns, from sex (“six”).

Noun

sextans

1. (historical, Roman antiquity) A Roman coin worth one sixth of an as.

Latin

Etymology

From sex (“six”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?sek.stans/, [?s??ks?t?ä??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?sek.stans/, [?s?kst??ns]

Noun

sext?ns m (genitive sextantis); third declension

1. a sixth part of an as, (in particular —)
   1. (a coin)
   2. (a weight)
   3. the sixth part of a juger (a measure of land)
   4. the sixth part of a sextarius (a measure of liquid)
   5. (a measure of length)
2. (mathematics) the sixth part of the number six (as of the numerus perfectus, in other words) unity, one
3. (Later Latin) a sextant (nautical instrument)

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Related terms

• sext?n?
• sext?rius

Descendants

• Russian: ??????? (sekstan), ???????? (sekstant)

See also

• oct?ns
• quadr?ns

References

• sextans in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sextans in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sextans in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• sextans in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sextans in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin