/swa.sɑ̃t/
Translation
sixty
Word origin
From Latin sexaginta ('sixty').
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- sexaginta
- English cognates
- sexagenarian
Examples
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My grandfather celebrated his sixtieth birthday last month.
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There are about sixty pupils at this school.
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The speed limit here is sixty kilometres an hour.
The trap sits just past it: French counts seventy as - ('sixty-ten'), not as its own word, so soixante is the base you keep reusing right up to seventy-nine.
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