sescenti

Latin

**Latin numbers ^(edit)**
← 500	DC 600	700 →
	60
Cardinal: sescentī, sexcentī Ordinal: sescentēsimus Proportional: sescentuplus, sexcentuplus Distributive: sescēnus

Alternative forms

Symbol: DC

Etymology

From sex (“six”) + centum (“hundred”).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [sɛsˈkɛn.tiː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [seʃˈʃɛn̪.t̪i]

Numeral

sescentī (feminine sescentae, neuter sescenta); first/second-declension numeral, plural only

six hundred; 600

Usage notes

Used as a plural adjective. For more information see Appendix:Latin cardinal numbers.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective, plural only.

	plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	sescentī	sescentae	sescenta
genitive	sescentōrum	sescentārum	sescentōrum
dative	sescentīs
accusative	sescentōs	sescentās	sescenta
ablative	sescentīs
vocative	sescentī	sescentae	sescenta

Descendants

Direct reflexes:
- >? Sardinian: seschentos
- Old Spanish: sezientos

Later formations ('six' + 'hundred'):
- Catalan: sis-cents
- French: six cents
- Italian: seicento
- Occitan: sièis cents
- Portuguese: seiscentos
- Spanish: seiscientos

See also

Appendix:Latin cardinal numbers

References

Pittau, Massimo. 1972. Grammatica del sardo-nuorese: Il più conservativo dei parlari neolatini. Bologna: Pàtron. §130.

Further reading

“sescenti”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“sescenti”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
sescenti in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.