sextans

From Latin sextāns, from sex (“six”).

sextans (plural sextantes)

1. (Ancient Rome) A Roman coin worth one sixth of an as.

• “sextans”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

From sex (“six”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsɛk.stãːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsɛk.st̪ans]

sextāns m (genitive sextantis); third declension

1. a sixth part of an as, (in particular —)
   1. (a coin)
   2. (a weight)
   3. the sixth part of a juger (a measure of land)
   4. the sixth part of a sextarius (a measure of liquid)
   5. (a measure of length)
2. (mathematics) the sixth part of the number six (as of the numerus perfectus, in other words) unity, one
3. (Later Latin) a sextant (nautical instrument)

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

• sextānī
• sextārius
• dēxtāns (“five-sixths”)

• Russian: секстан (sekstan), секстант (sekstant)

• octāns
• quadrāns

• “sextans”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sextans”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sextans in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “sextans”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “sextans”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin