sextuplus

Latin

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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

From sex (“six”) and sextus (“sixth”) +‎ -plus (“-fold”). The use of -t- may have been influenced by the following septuplus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsek.stu.plus/, [ˈs̠ɛks̠t̪ʊpɫ̪ʊs̠] or IPA^(key): /sekˈstup.lus/, [s̠ɛkˈs̠t̪ʊpɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsek.stu.plus/, [ˈsɛkst̪uplus] or IPA^(key): /sekˈstup.lus/, [sekˈst̪uplus]

Adjective

sextuplus (feminine sextupla, neuter sextuplum); first/second-declension adjective

1. (Medieval Latin, New Latin) sixfold, six times as much

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	sextuplus	sextupla	sextuplum		sextuplī	sextuplae	sextupla
genitive	sextuplī	sextuplae	sextuplī		sextuplōrum	sextuplārum	sextuplōrum
dative	sextuplō	sextuplae	sextuplō		sextuplīs
accusative	sextuplum	sextuplam	sextuplum		sextuplōs	sextuplās	sextupla
ablative	sextuplō	sextuplā	sextuplō		sextuplīs
vocative	sextuple	sextupla	sextuplum		sextuplī	sextuplae	sextupla

Descendants

• → English: sextuple
• → French: sextuple

References

• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “sextuplus”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎^[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
• sextuplus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.