sextet

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From French sextette, from Italian sestetto

PronunciationEdit

• Rhymes: -ɛt

NounEdit

sextet (plural sextets)

1. any group of six people or things
2. (music) a composition for six voices or instruments
3. a group of six singers or instrumentalists

Coordinate termsEdit

1. solo
2. duo
3. trio
4. quartet
5. quintet

• septet
• octet
• nonet

SynonymsEdit

1. hexad

TranslationsEdit

any group of six people

• Finnish: kuusikko (fi)
• Italian: sestetto (it) m
• Maori: tokoono

• Romanian: sextet (ro) m
• Spanish: sexteto m

composition for six voices or instruments

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 六重奏 (zh) (liùchóngzòu)

• Czech: sextet (cs) m
• Finnish: sekstetti (fi)
• French: sextuor (fr) m, sextette (fr) m
• German: Sextett (de) n
• Hungarian: szextett

• Italian: sestetto (it) m
• Japanese: セクステット (sekusutetto), 六重奏 (rokujūsō), 六重唱 (rokujūshō)
• Korean: 섹스텟 (sekseutet), 육중주 (yukjungju), 육중창 (yukjungchang)
• Russian: сексте́т (ru) m (sɛkstét)
• Spanish: sexteto m
• Swedish: sextett (sv) c

group of six singers or instrumentalists

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 六重唱 (zh)

• Czech: sexteto (cs) n

• Manx: shey m, sestet m
• Romanian: sextet (ro)

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