sextuplex
English
Adjective
sextuplex (not comparable)
- Having six components.
- 1886, The Electrical World, page 209:
- In the new sextuplex telegraph system of Mr. Stephen D. Field, which is described below, while some methods are employed analogous in some cases to those used in the systems above mentioned, the system as a whole is decidedly novel and interesting […]
Synonyms
Latin
| [a], [b], [c], [d] ← 5 | VI 6 |
7 → [a], [b], [c], [d] |
|---|---|---|
| Cardinal: sex Ordinal: sextus Adverbial: sexiēs, sexiēns, sextō Proportional: sexuplus, sextuplus, sexcuplus Multiplier: sexuplex, sextuplex, sexcuplex, sēplex, secuplex Distributive: sēnus Collective: sēniō Fractional: sextāns | ||
Etymology
From sex (“six”) and sextus (“sixth”) + -plex (“-fold”), from plicō (“to fold”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈsɛk.stʊ.pɫɛks], [sɛkˈstʊp.ɫɛks]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈsɛk.st̪u.pleks], [sekˈst̪up.leks]
Adjective
sextuplex (genitive sextuplicis, adverb sextupliciter); third-declension one-termination adjective
- (Medieval Latin, New Latin) sixfold, possessing six parts
- Synonym: sēnārius
Declension
Third-declension one-termination adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masc./fem. | neuter | masc./fem. | neuter | ||
| nominative | sextuplex | sextuplicēs | sextuplicia | ||
| genitive | sextuplicis | sextuplicium | |||
| dative | sextuplicī | sextuplicibus | |||
| accusative | sextuplicem | sextuplex | sextuplicēs | sextuplicia | |
| ablative | sextuplicī | sextuplicibus | |||
| vocative | sextuplex | sextuplicēs | sextuplicia | ||
References
- R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “sextuplex”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
- sextuplex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.