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six
Translingual
Etymology
From English six
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?siks]
Numeral
six
- Code word for the digit 6 in the NATO/ICAO spelling alphabet
Synonyms
ITU/IMO code word soxisix
References
English
Etymology
From Middle English six, from Old English syx, siex, from Proto-West Germanic *sehs, from Proto-Germanic *sehs, from Proto-Indo-European *swé?s. Compare West Frisian seis, Dutch zes, Low German söss, sess, German sechs, Norwegian and Danish seks, also Latin sex, Ancient Greek ?? (héx), Sanskrit ??? (?a?). Doublet of sice.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /s?ks/, enPR: s?ks
- Rhymes: -?ks
- Homophones: sicks, sics
Numeral
six
- A numerical value equal to 6; the number following five and preceding seven. This many dots: (••••••).
- Describing a group or set with six elements.
Derived terms
Related terms
- sixth
Translations
Noun
six (plural sixes)
- The digit or figure 6.
- (military slang, by ellipsis of six o'clock) Rear, behind (rear side of something).
- (cricket, countable) An event whereby a batsman hits a ball which does not bounce before passing over a boundary in the air, resulting in an award of 6 runs for the batting team.
- (American football) A touchdown.
- (obsolete) Small beer sold at six shillings per barrel.
Derived terms
- at sixes and sevens
- deep six
- hit someone for six
- long six
- short six
- six feet under
Translations
See also
- 6 (Arabic numeral)
- ?, ? (Chinese numerals)
- ? or VI (Roman numeral)
- ??? (st?) or ?? (??) (Greek numeral)
- Table of cardinal numbers 0 to 9 in various languages
Anagrams
- ISX, XIs, xis
French
Etymology
From Middle French six, from Old French sis, six, from Latin sex, from Proto-Indo-European *swé?s.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sis/
- (before a vowel or mute h) IPA(key): /si.z?/
- (before a consonant or aspirate h) IPA(key): /si/
- Rhymes: -is
Noun
six m (plural six)
- six
Derived terms
- sixain
- six cents
- Six Nations
- six-huit
- à la six-quatre-deux
- sixte
- sizain
- sixième
Descendants
- Haitian Creole: sis
- Louisiana Creole French: sis
- Mauritian Creole: sis
See also
Further reading
- “six” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle English
Alternative forms
- sex, cex
Etymology
From Old English siex, syx, from Proto-Germanic *sehs, from Proto-Indo-European *swé?s. Possibly influenced by French six, from the same Proto-Indo-European numeral.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?siks/
Numeral
six
- six
Related terms
- sixte
- sixtene
Descendants
- English: six
- Scots: sex, sax
- Yola: zeese
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French sis, six.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (in isolation) /sis/, (before a vowel) /siz/, (before a consonant) /si/
Numeral
six (invariable)
- six
Descendants
- French: six
- Haitian Creole: sis
- Louisiana Creole French: sis
- Mauritian Creole: sis
- Norman: six
Norman
Etymology
From Latin sex, from Proto-Indo-European *swé?s.
Pronunciation
Numeral
six
- (Jersey, Guernsey) six
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hexameter
English
Alternative forms
- hexametre
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ????????? (hexámetros). Equivalent to hexa- +? meter.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: he?xa?me?ter
Noun
hexameter (countable and uncountable, plural hexameters)
- (countable) a line in a poem having six metrical feet
- (uncountable) a poetic metre in which each line has six feet
Related terms
- hexametral
- hexametric
Translations
See also
- (poetic meter) monometer, dimeter, trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter, heptameter, octameter, enneameter, decameter, hendecameter, dodecameter (Category: en:Prosody)
Anagrams
- hexametre
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin hexameter, from Ancient Greek ????????? (hexámetros).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??k?sa?.me?.t?r/, /??k?sa?.me?.t?r/
- Hyphenation: he?xa?me?ter
Noun
hexameter m (plural hexameters)
- hexameter
Latin
Etymology
Derived from hexa- +? meter.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /hek?sa.me.ter/, [h?k?s?äm?t??r]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ek?sa.me.ter/, [???z??m?t??r]
Noun
hexameter m (genitive hexametr?); second declension
- hexameter
Declension
Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).
References
- hexameter in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- hexameter in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- hexameter in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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