sixtyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Inherited from 中期英語 sixty, sexty, 古期英語 sixtiġ, from Proto-Germanic *sehs tigiwiz (“sixty”), equivalent to six +‎ -ty. Cognate with Scots sexty, saxty (“sixty”), Saterland Frisian säkstich (“sixty”), West Frisian sechstich (“sixty”), Dutch zestig (“sixty”), German Low German sesstig (“sixty”), German sechzig (“sixty”), Swedish sextio (“sixty”), Norwegian seksti (“sixty”), Icelandic sextíu (“sixty”). Compare also Sanskrit षष्टि (ṣaṣṭi).

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈsɪksti/
• (General American) enPR: sĭksʹtē, IPA: /ˈsɪksti/
• 韻: -ɪkstɪ, -ɪksti
• ハイフネーション: six‧ty

数詞

sixty

1. The cardinal number occurring after fifty-nine and before sixty-one, represented in Roman numerals as LX and in Arabic numerals as 60.

   Synonym: threescore (archaic)

   • 2005 August 21, Henry Alford, “Not a Word”, in The New Yorker‎, →ISSN, archived from the original on 9 March 2017:

     […] the remaining three hundred and sixty words were then vetted with a battery of references. Six potential Mountweazels emerged.

   • 2014 November 24, Michael Thomas De Vlieger, “Multiplication Tables of Various Bases”, in The Number Base‎, archived from the original on 6 February 2023, page 43:

     The first sixty argam form the basis for my own sexagesimal use, in the accounting of my business and in the dimensioning of buildings.

派生語

参考

• Previous: fifty-nine, fifty
• Next: sixty-one, seventy
• sexagesimal

名詞

sixty (plural sixties)

1. (broadcasting) A commercial lasting 60 seconds.

   Coordinate term: thirty

   • 2014, Jules Witcover, No Way to Pick a President:

     […] instead of thirties [thirty-second commercials], they buy sixties, which cost twice as much. They spend more on filming it than they need to; they buy a lot of ads that are garbage and don't really say anything, just to fill up the space.

アナグラム

• xysti

別の表記

• cexty, sexti, sexty, sixti, syxty, zixti
• (early) sextiȝ, sixtiȝ

語源

From 古期英語 sixtiġ, from Proto-Germanic *sehs tigiwiz; equivalent to six +‎ -ty.

発音

• IPA: /ˈsikstiː/, /ˈsɛkstiː/

数詞

sixty

1. sixty (the cardinal number occurring after fifty-nine and before sixty-one, represented in Roman numerals as LX and in Arabic numerals as 60)

派生した語

• English: sixty
  • Hawaiian Creole: sixty
• Scots: sexty, saxty

参照

• “sixtī, num.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.