sexagenarius

Latin

Etymology

From sexāgēnus (“sixty each”, distributive) +‎ -ārius (denumeral adjective suffix), from sexāgintā (“sixty”).

Adjective

sexāgēnārius (feminine sexāgēnāria, neuter sexāgēnārium); first/second-declension adjective

  1. (in general) of or relating to sixty
    Fistula sexagenaria.
    A pipe sixty quarter-digits in diameter.
  2. (in particular) sexagenary, sixty years old; (as a noun) a man of sixty, a sexagenarian
    Cicero objurgantibus, quod sexagenarius Publiliam virginem duxisset.
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Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative sexāgēnārius sexāgēnāria sexāgēnārium sexāgēnāriī sexāgēnāriae sexāgēnāria
genitive sexāgēnāriī sexāgēnāriae sexāgēnāriī sexāgēnāriōrum sexāgēnāriārum sexāgēnāriōrum
dative sexāgēnāriō sexāgēnāriae sexāgēnāriō sexāgēnāriīs
accusative sexāgēnārium sexāgēnāriam sexāgēnārium sexāgēnāriōs sexāgēnāriās sexāgēnāria
ablative sexāgēnāriō sexāgēnāriā sexāgēnāriō sexāgēnāriīs
vocative sexāgēnārie sexāgēnāria sexāgēnārium sexāgēnāriī sexāgēnāriae sexāgēnāria

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Catalan: sexagenari
  • French: sexagénaire
  • Galician: sesaxenario
  • Italian: sessagenario
  • Portuguese: sexagenário
  • Spanish: sexagenario

References

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