different between sixth vs sextans

English

Alternative forms

• sixt (obsolete)

Etymology

From earlier sixt, from Middle English sixte, from Old English siexta, from Proto-Germanic *sehstô.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?k(s)?/, [s?k(s)?], [s?k(s)t?] (before a consonant often reduced to [s?ks])
• Rhymes: -?ks?, -?k?
• Homophone: six (frequent reduced form before a consonant)

Adjective

sixth (not comparable)

1. The ordinal form of the number six.

   • Transliterated: And God saw everything that he had made: and behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

Synonyms

6th, 6^th, VIth; (in names of monarchs and popes) VI

Translations

Noun

sixth (plural sixths)

1. (not used in the plural) The person or thing in the sixth position.
2. One of six equal parts of a whole.
3. (music) The interval between one note and another, five notes higher in the scale, for example C to A, a major sixth, or C to A flat, a minor sixth. (Note that the interval covers six notes counting inclusively, for example C-D-E-F-G-A.)

Synonyms

• (one of six equal parts): ?

Translations

Verb

sixth (third-person singular simple present sixths, present participle sixthing, simple past and past participle sixthed)

1. to divide by six, which also means multiplying a denominator by six
   • 1993 Dead Reckoning: Calculating Without Instruments page 102

     Why would anyone use sixthing when any (N ? a²) divisible by 6 would also be divisible by 3? The answer is that sometimes the numerator and/or the denominator is simpler in sixthing,

Related terms

• French sixth
• Italian sixth
• major sixth
• minor sixth
• sixth sense

References

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