sexagenarius

Latin

Etymology

From sexāgēnus (“sixty each”, distributive) +‎ -ārius (denumeral adjective suffix), from sexāgintā (“sixty”).

Adjective

sexāgēnārius (feminine sexāgēnāria, neuter sexāgēnārium); first/second-declension adjective

1. (in general) of or relating to sixty

   Fistula sexagenaria.

   A pipe sixty quarter-digits in diameter.

2. (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

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

• sexāgēnāriōs dē ponte

Related terms

• septuāgēnārius

Descendants

• Catalan: sexagenari
• French: sexagénaire
  • → English: sexagenary, sexagenarian
• Galician: sesaxenario
• Italian: sessagenario
• Portuguese: sexagenário
• Spanish: sexagenario

References

• “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.