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sixty

English

Etymology

From Middle English sixty, sexty, Old English siexti?, 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 ????? (?a??i).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?s?kst?/
  • (General American) enPR: s?ks?t?, IPA(key): /?s?ksti/
  • Hyphenation: six?ty

Numeral

sixty

  1. The cardinal number occurring after fifty-nine and before sixty-one, represented in Roman numerals as LX and in Arabic numerals as 60.

Synonyms

  • Arabic numerals: 60
  • Roman numerals: LX

Translations

See also

  • Previous: fifty-nine, fifty
  • Next: sixty-one, seventy
  • sexagesimal

Anagrams

  • xysti

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fiftysomething

English

Alternative forms

  • fifty-something

Noun

fiftysomething (countable and uncountable, plural fiftysomethings)

  1. (countable, colloquial) A person aged between 50 and 59 years.
    She was a spritely fiftysomething.

Synonyms

  • quinquagenarian

Translations

Numeral

fiftysomething

  1. Between fifty and sixty.

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