sexaginta Latin · revision 32141

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=inherited|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *swéḱsdḱomt}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [sɛk.saːˈɡɪn.taː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [seɡ.zaˈd͡ʒin.ta]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''sexāgintā''' (indeclinable)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|sex|-gintā|t1=six|t2=-ty]].^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008) Wiktionary traces it to [[ine-pro|*sweḱsḱomt]], from earlier [[m|ine-pro|*swéḱsdḱomt|t=six tens]].^(Wiktionary) De Vaan notes that the ⟨-ā-⟩ was inserted after [[m|la|quadrāgintā|t=forty]], since [[m|la|*seks-g-]] would have given ⟨sēgintā⟩, and traces [[m|la|sex]] to [[itc-pro|*seks]] and [[m|ine-pro|*(s)ueks|t=six]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[grc|ἑξήκοντα|tr=hexḗkonta|t=sixty]].^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Plautus,^(Köbler 2010) who speaks of sixty minae and of sixty years;^(Lewis & Short 1879) de Vaan's first author is Cato.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is the indeclinable numeral sixty, used with nouns of all kinds;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Terence and Cicero have it in giving ages, as ''sexāgintā annōs nātus'' “sixty years old”, and Livy of men over sixty.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin keeps the sense.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of sixty minae and sixty years.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato uses it.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence of a man sixty years old.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Numeral===

+ # [[m|en|sixty|alt=Sixty]]; 60.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[sexāgēnī]]

+ * [[sexāgiēns]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[sex]]

+ * [[sexagesimus|alt=sexāgēsimus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}