six
TranslingualEdit
Signal flag for the digit 6 |
EtymologyEdit
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NounEdit
six
- (international standards) NATO & ICAO phonetic alphabet code for the digit 6.
- Synonym: soxisix (ITU/IMO)
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EnglishEdit
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Cardinal: six Ordinal: sixth Latinate ordinal: senary Adverbial: six times Multiplier: sixfold Latinate multiplier: sextuple Distributive: sextuply Collective: half-dozen, sixsome Multiuse collective: sextuplet, hextuplet Greek or Latinate collective: hexad Greek collective prefix: hexa- Latinate collective prefix: sexa- Fractional: sixth Latinate fractional prefix: sextant- Elemental: sextuplet, hextuplet Greek prefix: ecto- Number of musicians: sextet Number of years: sexennium |
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English six, from Old English six, from Proto-West Germanic *sehs, from Proto-Germanic *sehs, from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs. Compare West Frisian seis, Dutch zes, Low German söss, sess, German sechs, Norwegian and Danish seks, also Latin sex, Ancient Greek ἕξ (héx), Sanskrit षष् (ṣaṣ). Doublet of sice.
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /sɪks/, enPR: sĭks
Audio (US) (file) Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪks
- Homophones: sicks, sics
NumeralEdit
six
- A numerical value equal to 6; the number following five and preceding seven. This many dots: (••••••).
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NounEdit
six (plural sixes)
- A group or set with six elements.
- The digit or figure 6.
- (military slang, by ellipsis of six o'clock) Rear, behind (rear side of something).
- cover my six
- 2009, Bill Yenne, Aces High: The Heroic Saga of the Two Top-scoring American Aces of World War II, Penguin, →ISBN, page 98:
- Just as having an enemy on your “six” is the hardest situation to escape, being on an enemy at six o'clock is the surest kill. Fighter pilots are always practicing maneuvers to get out from having another aircraft on their six.
- (cricket, countable) An event whereby a batsman hits a ball which does not bounce before passing over a boundary in the air, resulting in an award of 6 runs for the batting team.
- 2019 July 14, Stephan Shemilt, “England win Cricket World Cup: Ben Stokes stars in dramatic finale against New Zealand”, in BBC Sport[2], London:
- England required 15 from the last over of the regular match. Ben Stokes hit a six and benefited when a throw from the deep hit him and went for four overthrows.
- (American football) A touchdown.
- (obsolete) Small beer sold at six shillings per barrel.
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See alsoEdit
- 6 (Arabic numeral)
- 陸/陆, 六 (Chinese numerals)
- Ⅵ or VI (Roman numeral)
- στ΄ or ϛ΄ (Greek numeral)
- Table of cardinal numbers 0 to 9 in various languages
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ace | deuce, two | three | four | five | six | seven |
eight | nine | ten | jack, knave | queen | king | joker |
AnagramsEdit
FrenchEdit
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Cardinal: six Ordinal: sixième Ordinal abbreviation: 6e, (now nonstandard) 6ème Multiplier: sextuple | ||
French Wikipedia article on 6 |
EtymologyEdit
From Middle French six, from Old French sis, six, from Latin sex, from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs.
The numbers six and dix (“ten”), as well as the pronoun tous (“all”), are remnants of the Old and Middle French pronunciation system where final -s or -x was silent before consonants, pronounced /z/ before vowels, and /s/ in pausa. The only change is that the pausal pronunciation is now invariably used when these words do not precede their referent.
PronunciationEdit
- IPA(key): /sis/ (independent)
- IPA(key): /si.z‿/ (before modified word in a vowel or mute h)
- IPA(key): /si/ (before modified word in a consonant or aspirate h)
- Rhymes: -is
NumeralEdit
six (invariable)
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Playing cards in French · cartes à jouer (layout · text) | ||||||
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as | deux | trois | quatre | cinq | six | sept |
huit | neuf | dix | valet | dame | roi | joker |
Further readingEdit
- “six”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
MaonanEdit
NumeralEdit
six
Middle EnglishEdit
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Cardinal: six Ordinal: sixte |
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EtymologyEdit
From Old English six, from Proto-West Germanic *sehs, from Proto-Germanic *sehs, from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs.
PronunciationEdit
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six
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ReferencesEdit
- “six, num.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Middle FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French sis, six.
PronunciationEdit
NumeralEdit
six (invariable)
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NormanEdit
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Cardinal : six | ||
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Cardinal : six | ||
EtymologyEdit
From Latin sex, from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs.
PronunciationEdit
Audio (Jersey) (file)
NumeralEdit
six
Old EnglishEdit
Lua error: not enough memory. See Wiktionary:Lua memory errors for more information.
Alternative formsEdit
- Lua error: not enough memory. See Wiktionary:Lua memory errors for more information.
EtymologyEdit
Lua error: not enough memory. See Wiktionary:Lua memory errors for more information. from Lua error: not enough memory. See Wiktionary:Lua memory errors for more information., from Lua error: not enough memory. See Wiktionary:Lua memory errors for more information., from Lua error: not enough memory. See Wiktionary:Lua memory errors for more information..
PronunciationEdit
- Lua error: not enough memory. See Wiktionary:Lua memory errors for more information.
NumeralEdit
Lua error: not enough memory. See Wiktionary:Lua memory errors for more information.
- Lua error: not enough memory. See Wiktionary:Lua memory errors for more information. Lua error: not enough memory. See Wiktionary:Lua memory errors for more information.
Derived termsEdit
- Lua error: not enough memory. See Wiktionary:Lua memory errors for more information.
- Lua error: not enough memory. See Wiktionary:Lua memory errors for more information.
DescendantsEdit
- Lua error: not enough memory. See Wiktionary:Lua memory errors for more information.