sexto

From Latin sextus (“sixth”).

sexto (plural sextos)

1. A book consisting of sheets each of which is folded into six leaves.

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

• IPA^(key): /sɛk.sto/

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Blend of sexe +‎ texto

sexto m (plural sextos)

1. sext

From Latin sextus (“sixth”).

sexto

1. sixthly

• 6º m, 6ª f (abbreviation)

From Latin sextus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈseksto/ [ˈs̺eks̺.t̪ʊ]
• Rhymes: -eksto
• Hyphenation: sex‧to

sexto (feminine sexta, masculine plural sextos, feminine plural sextas)

1. sixth

sexto m (plural sextos)

1. sixth

• “sexto”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

sextō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of sextus

sextō (not comparable)

1. six times

• “sexto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sexto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

From Old Galician-Portuguese sexto, seisto, sesto, from Latin sextus.

• Homophone: cesto (Brazil, Southern Portugal)
• Hyphenation: sex‧to

sexto (feminine sexta, masculine plural sextos, feminine plural sextas)

1. (ordinal number) sixth

sexto m (plural sextos)

1. (fractional number) sixth (one of six parts of a whole)

sexto

1. first-person singular present indicative of sextar

Learned borrowing from Latin sextus, along with several other ordinal numerals (segundo, quinto, séptimo), a tendency shared with many other Romance languages. Compare the inherited feminine doublets, sesma and siesta.

• IPA^(key): /ˈseɡsto/ [ˈseɣ̞s.t̪o]
  • Rhymes: -eɡsto
• IPA^(key): /ˈsesto/ [ˈses.t̪o]
  • Rhymes: -esto

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• Syllabification: sex‧to

sexto (feminine sexta, masculine plural sextos, feminine plural sextas)

1. (ordinal number) sixth

   Synonym: seisavo

• 6.º m
• 6.ª f

sexto m (plural sextos)

1. (fractional number) sixth, ¹⁄₆

• “sexto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024