sixfold
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Cardinal: six Ordinal: sixth Latinate ordinal: senary Adverbial: six times Multiplier: sixfold Latinate multiplier: sextuple Distributive: sextuply Germanic collective: half-dozen, sixsome Collective of n parts: sextuplet, hextuplet Greek or Latinate collective: hexad Greek collective prefix: hexa- Latinate collective prefix: sexa- Fractional: sixth Elemental: sextuplet, hextuplet Greek prefix: hexa- Number of musicians: sextet Number of years: sexennium |
Etymology
[edit]From Middle English sexfold, from Old English sixfeald. Equivalent to six + -fold.
Adjective
[edit]sixfold (not comparable)
- Having six times as much or as many.
- Having six component parts.
- The method is sixfold, and I will tell you what the six steps you must take are.
- 1605, Andrew Willet, Hexapla in Geneſin, That Is, A Sixfold Commentarie Upon Genesis, wherein ſixe ſeverall tranſlations, that is the Septuagint, and the Chalde, two Latin, of Hierome, and Tremellius, two Engliſh, the great Bible , and the Geneva edition are compared.
- The method is sixfold, and I will tell you what the six steps you must take are.
Translations
[edit]having six component parts
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Adverb
[edit]sixfold (not comparable)
- Times six, multiplied by six.
- I will return your investment sixfold. That's right, you'll have 600% of what you started with.
- 1885, Alexander Campbell, Speeches on Divers Occasions, page 101, "[He] would state that in [1842, there were] 3,448 letters ... received, and in 1865 [that total was] 18,222, or nearly sixfold more.
- I will return your investment sixfold. That's right, you'll have 600% of what you started with.
Translations
[edit]times six, multiplied by six
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