soixante
See also: souaixante
French edit
600[a], [b] | ||||
← 50 | ← 59 | 60 | 61 → [a], [b] | 70 → [a], [b] |
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6 | ||||
Cardinal: soixante Ordinal: soixantième Ordinal abbreviation: 60e, (now nonstandard) 60ème | ||||
French Wikipedia article on 60 |
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old French soissante, seixante, from Latin sexāgintā, from Proto-Indo-European *sweḱsḱomt, from earlier *swéḱs-dḱomt (“six-ten”).
Pronunciation edit
Numeral edit
soixante (invariable)
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- Louisiana Creole: swasant
Further reading edit
- “soixante”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.