sextet

English

Etymology

From French sextette, from Italian sestetto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛksˈtɛt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɛt

English numbers ^(edit)

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Cardinal: six     Ordinal: sixth     Abbreviated ordinal: 6th     Latinate ordinal: senary     Adverbial: six times     Multiplier: sixfold     Latinate multiplier: sextuple     Distributive: sextuply     Germanic collective: half-dozen, sixsome     Collective of n parts: sextuplet, hextuplet     Greek or Latinate collective: hexad     Greek collective prefix: hexa-     Latinate collective prefix: sexa-     Fractional: sixth     Elemental: sextuplet, hextuplet     Greek prefix: hexa-     Number of musicians: sextet     Number of years: sexennium

Noun

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.

Synonyms

• hexad

Coordinate terms

• solo
• duo
• trio
• quartet
• quintet
• septet
• octet
• nonet

Related terms

• sestet

Translations

any group of six people

• Finnish: kuusikko (fi)
• Italian: sestetto (it) m
• Maori: tokoono
• Romanian: sextet (ro) n
• Spanish: sexteto (es) m

composition for six voices or instruments

• Bulgarian: секстет m (sekstet)
• Catalan: sextet m
• 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 (hu)
• 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)
• Romanian: sextet (ro) n
• Russian: сексте́т (ru) m (sɛkstét)
• Spanish: sexteto (es) m
• Swedish: sextett (sv) c
• Turkish: altılı (tr)

group of six singers or instrumentalists

• Bulgarian: секстет m (sekstet)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 六重唱 (zh)

• Czech: sexteto (cs) n
• German: Sextett (de) n
• Manx: shey m, sestet m
• Romanian: sextet (ro) n

See also

• Thesaurus:number

Anagrams

• e-texts, etexts

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [səksˈtɛt]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) unknown
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [seksˈtet]

Noun

sextet m (plural sextets)

1. (music) sextet

Further reading

• “sextet”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], 2007 April
• “sextet”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “sextet” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “sextet” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Sextett.

Noun

sextet n (plural sextete)

1. sextet

Declension

Declension of sextet

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	sextet	sextetul		sextete	sextetele
genitive-dative	sextet	sextetului		sextete	sextetelor
vocative	sextetule			sextetelor