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/swa.sɑ̃t/

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Translation

sixty

Word origin

From Latin sexaginta ('sixty').

Origin
Latin
Root
sexaginta
English cognates
sexagenarian

Examples

- .

My grandfather celebrated his sixtieth birthday last month.

.

There are about sixty pupils at this school.

l'.

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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