seixanta

Inherited from Old Catalan sexanta, from Latin sexāgintā (“sixty”), from Proto-Indo-European *sweḱsḱomt, from earlier *swéḱs-dḱomt (“six-ten”). Compare Occitan seissanta, French soixante, Spanish sesenta.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [səˈʃan.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [sejˈʃan.ta]

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• Rhymes: -anta

seixanta m or f

1. (cardinal number) sixty

seixanta m (plural seixantes)

1. sixty

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• “seixanta”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “seixanta” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.