sixty

From Middle English sixty, sexty, Old English sixtiġ, from Proto-Germanic *sehs tigiwiz (“sixty”), equivalent to six +‎ -ty. Cognate with Scots sexty, saxty (“sixty”), Saterland Frisian säkstich (“sixty”), West Frisian sechstich (“sixty”), Dutch zestig (“sixty”), German Low German sesstig (“sixty”), German sechzig (“sixty”), Swedish sextio (“sixty”), Norwegian seksti (“sixty”), Icelandic sextíu (“sixty”). Compare also Sanskrit षष्टि (ṣaṣṭi).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪksti/
• (General American) enPR: sĭksʹtē, IPA^(key): /ˈsɪksti/

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• Rhymes: -ɪkstɪ, -ɪksti
• Hyphenation: six‧ty

sixty

1. The cardinal number occurring after fifty-nine and before sixty-one, represented in Roman numerals as LX and in Arabic numerals as 60.

   Synonym: threescore (archaic)

• Previous: fifty-nine, fifty
• Next: sixty-one, seventy
• sexagesimal

sixty (plural sixties)

1. (broadcasting) A commercial lasting 60 seconds.

   Coordinate term: thirty

   • 2014, Jules Witcover, No Way to Pick a President:

     […] instead of thirties [thirty-second commercials], they buy sixties, which cost twice as much. They spend more on filming it than they need to; they buy a lot of ads that are garbage and don't really say anything, just to fill up the space.

• xysti

• cexty, sexti, sexty, sixti, syxty, zixti
• (early) sextiȝ, sixtiȝ

From Old English sixtiġ, from Proto-Germanic *sehs tigiwiz; equivalent to six +‎ -ty.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsikstiː/, /ˈsɛkstiː/

sixty

1. sixty

• English: sixty
• Scots: sexty, saxty

• “sixtī, num.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.