🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

sessantesimo

Pronunciation / Transliteration: /sesˈsantesimo/

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Sixtieth/ˈsɪk.sti.əθ/
adjectivenounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #4500 frequency
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"Festeggia il suo sessantesimo compleanno."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    The ordinal number corresponding to the number sixty in a series.

    "She celebrated her sixtieth birthday with a grand family gathering."
As noun
  1. 1

    One of sixty equal parts of a whole.

    "A second is defined as one sixtieth of a minute."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Old English 'sixtigoða', based on 'sixtig' (sixty) combined with the ordinal suffix '-the' (from Proto-Germanic and Indo-European roots). Historically used to denote the number six tens in counting systems, calendars, and fractional divisions.

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