sexagenarius
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From sexāgēnus (“sixty each”, distributive) + -ārius (denumeral adjective suffix), from sexāgintā (“sixty”).
Adjective edit
sexāgēnārius (feminine sexāgēnāria, neuter sexāgēnārium); first/second-declension adjective
- (in general) of or relating to sixty
- Fistula sexagenaria.
- A pipe sixty quarter-digits in diameter.
- (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 edit
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | sexāgēnārius | sexāgēnāria | sexāgēnārium | sexāgēnāriī | sexāgēnāriae | sexāgēnāria | |
| Genitive | sexāgēnāriī | sexāgēnāriae | sexāgēnāriī | sexāgēnāriōrum | sexāgēnāriārum | sexāgēnāriōrum | |
| Dative | sexāgēnāriō | sexāgēnāriō | sexāgēnāriīs | ||||
| Accusative | sexāgēnārium | sexāgēnāriam | sexāgēnārium | sexāgēnāriōs | sexāgēnāriās | sexāgēnāria | |
| Ablative | sexāgēnāriō | sexāgēnāriā | sexāgēnāriō | sexāgēnāriīs | |||
| Vocative | sexāgēnārie | sexāgēnāria | sexāgēnārium | sexāgēnāriī | sexāgēnāriae | sexāgēnāria | |
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- Catalan: sexagenari
- French: sexagénaire
- → English: sexagenary, sexagenarian
- Galician: sesaxenario
- Italian: sessagenario
- Portuguese: sexagenário
- Spanish: sexagenario
References edit
- “sexagenarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- sexagenarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.