sextuplex

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English

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Adjective

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sextuplex (not comparable)

  1. Having six components.
    • 1886, The Electrical World, page 209:
      In the new sextuplex telegraph system of Mr. Stephen D. Field, which is described below, while some methods are employed analogous in some cases to those used in the systems above mentioned, the system as a whole is decidedly novel and interesting []

Synonyms

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Latin

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Latin numbers (edit)
[a], [b], [c], [d] ←  5 VI
6
7  → [a], [b], [c], [d]
    Cardinal: sex
    Ordinal: sextus
    Adverbial: sexiēs, sexiēns, sextō
    Proportional: sexuplus, sextuplus, sexcuplus
    Multiplier: sexuplex, sextuplex, sexcuplex, sēplex, secuplex
    Distributive: sēnus
    Collective: sēniō
    Fractional: sextāns

Etymology

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From sex (six) and sextus (sixth) +‎ -plex (-fold), from plicō (to fold).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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sextuplex (genitive sextuplicis, adverb sextupliciter); third-declension one-termination adjective

  1. (Medieval Latin, New Latin) sixfold, possessing six parts
    Synonym: sēnārius

Declension

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Third-declension one-termination adjective.

singular plural
masc./fem. neuter masc./fem. neuter
nominative sextuplex sextuplicēs sextuplicia
genitive sextuplicis sextuplicium
dative sextuplicī sextuplicibus
accusative sextuplicem sextuplex sextuplicēs sextuplicia
ablative sextuplicī sextuplicibus
vocative sextuplex sextuplicēs sextuplicia

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