Latin

Proper noun

Sextus m ‎(genitive Sextī); second declension

1. A masculine praenomen. Abbreviated as Sex.

   Sextum autem nunciavit cum una solum leione fuisse Carthagine.

   He said that Sextus had been at Carthage with only one legion.

Inflection

Second declension.

References

• Sextus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “Sextus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

Latin

Alternative forms

• 6tus

Numeral

sextus m ‎(feminine sexta, neuter sextum); first/second declension

1. (ordinal) sixth

Inflection

First/second declension.

Derived terms

• sextārius
• sextīlis

Descendants

• English: sextate (borrowed)
• Catalan: sesta
• Italian: sesto
• Old French: siste
• Portuguese: sexto, sesta
• Spanish: sexto, siesta

References

• sextus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sextus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• SEXTUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “sextus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • I have not seen you for five years: quinque anni sunt or sextus annus est, cum te non vidi
    
  • (ambiguous) he has been absent five years: quinque annos or sextum (iam) annum abest
    
  • (ambiguous) consul for the sixth, seventh time: sextum (Pis. 9. 20), septimum consul
    
• sextus in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray