different between six vs sextate

Translingual

Etymology

From English six

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?siks]

Numeral

six

1. Code word for the digit 6 in the NATO/ICAO spelling alphabet

Synonyms

ITU/IMO code word soxisix

References

English

Etymology

From Middle English six, from Old English syx, siex, from Proto-West Germanic *sehs, from Proto-Germanic *sehs, from Proto-Indo-European *swé?s. Compare West Frisian seis, Dutch zes, Low German söss, sess, German sechs, Norwegian and Danish seks, also Latin sex, Ancient Greek ?? (héx), Sanskrit ??? (?a?). Doublet of sice.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /s?ks/, enPR: s?ks
• Rhymes: -?ks
• Homophones: sicks, sics

Numeral

six

1. A numerical value equal to 6; the number following five and preceding seven. This many dots: (••••••).
2. Describing a group or set with six elements.

Derived terms

Related terms

• sixth

Translations

Noun

six (plural sixes)

1. The digit or figure 6.
2. (military slang, by ellipsis of six o'clock) Rear, behind (rear side of something).

3. (cricket, countable) An event whereby a batsman hits a ball which does not bounce before passing over a boundary in the air, resulting in an award of 6 runs for the batting team.
4. (American football) A touchdown.
5. (obsolete) Small beer sold at six shillings per barrel.

Derived terms

• at sixes and sevens
• deep six
• hit someone for six
• long six
• short six
• six feet under

Translations

See also

• 6 (Arabic numeral)
• ?, ? (Chinese numerals)
• ? or VI (Roman numeral)
• ??? (st?) or ?? (??) (Greek numeral)
• Table of cardinal numbers 0 to 9 in various languages

Anagrams

• ISX, XIs, xis

French

Etymology

From Middle French six, from Old French sis, six, from Latin sex, from Proto-Indo-European *swé?s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sis/
• (before a vowel or mute h) IPA^(key): /si.z?/
• (before a consonant or aspirate h) IPA^(key): /si/
• Rhymes: -is

Noun

six m (plural six)

1. six

Derived terms

• sixain
• six cents
• Six Nations
• six-huit
• à la six-quatre-deux
• sixte
• sizain
• sixième

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: sis
• Louisiana Creole French: sis
• Mauritian Creole: sis

See also

Further reading

• “six” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Alternative forms

• sex, cex

Etymology

From Old English siex, syx, from Proto-Germanic *sehs, from Proto-Indo-European *swé?s. Possibly influenced by French six, from the same Proto-Indo-European numeral.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?siks/

Numeral

six

1. six

Related terms

• sixte
• sixtene

Descendants

• English: six
• Scots: sex, sax
• Yola: zeese

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French sis, six.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (in isolation) /sis/, (before a vowel) /siz/, (before a consonant) /si/

Numeral

six (invariable)

1. six

Descendants

• French: six
  • Haitian Creole: sis
  • Louisiana Creole French: sis
  • Mauritian Creole: sis
• Norman: six

Norman

Etymology

From Latin sex, from Proto-Indo-European *swé?s.

Pronunciation

Numeral

six

1. (Jersey, Guernsey) six

English

Etymology

Latin sextus (“sixth”) + English -ate; compare quintate, septimate, and decimate

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, UK) enPR: s?ks?t?t, IPA^(key): /?s?kste?t/

Verb

sextate (third-person singular simple present sextates, present participle sextating, simple past and past participle sextated)

1. (rare) Reduce by one sixth.
   • 1791, Emanuel Swedenborg, The Apocalyp?e Revealed II, page 101

     Becau?e ?ix ?ignified Full, the Word to ?extate (to divide into ?ix, of to give a ?ixth Part) originated thence, by which in a ?piritual Sen?e is ?ignified that which is complete and entire, as That they ?hould Sextate an Ephah out of an Homer of Barley, (i. e. take a Sixth of an Ephah) Ezek. xlv. 13. and it is ?aid of Gog, I will turn thee back, and will Sextate thee (leave but a ?ixth Part of thee) Ezek. xxxix. 2. by which is ?ignified, that with him all Truth of Good in the Word ?hould be totally de?troyed; who are meant by Gog, may be ?een N. 850.

2. (rare) Reduce to one sixth.
   • 1791, Emanuel Swedenborg, The Apocalyp?e Revealed II, page 101

     Becau?e ?ix ?ignified Full, the Word to ?extate (to divide into ?ix, of to give a ?ixth Part) originated thence, by which in a ?piritual Sen?e is ?ignified that which is complete and entire, as That they ?hould Sextate an Ephah out of an Homer of Barley, (i. e. take a Sixth of an Ephah) Ezek. xlv. 13. and it is ?aid of Gog, I will turn thee back, and will Sextate thee (leave but a ?ixth Part of thee) Ezek. xxxix. 2. by which is ?ignified, that with him all Truth of Good in the Word ?hould be totally de?troyed; who are meant by Gog, may be ?een N. 850.

   • 1883, Thomas Goyder et al., The Science of Correspondences Elucidated (6th ed.), page 450

     By sextating, or leaving but a sixth part of Gog, is signified the total destruction of every truth derived from good in such a church.

Coordinate terms

• (reduce proportionately, by single aliquot part): tertiate (?), quintate (?), septimate (?), decimate (?), duodecimate (¹???), centesimate (¹????)

Adjective

sextate (not comparable)

1. (rare) sixfold; In groups of six.
   • 1907, Albert Mann and Percy Leroy Ricker, Report on the Diatoms of the Albatross Voyages in the Pacific Ocean, 1888–1904, page 293

     De Toni’s placing the quadrate form in Amphitetras and the sextate in Nothoceratium is of course indefensible.

2. (rare, physics) sixfold degenerate
   • 1967, Journal of the Indian Chemical Society XLIV:ii, page 990

     The room temperature magnetic moments of these complexes were determined by the Gouy method and the values are in the range 5.7—5.9 B.M. (Table), indicative of the presence of five unpaired electrons and the sextate ground state level in these complexes.

Noun

sextate

1. (rare, spectroscopy) A group of six peaks or lines
   • 1981, Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy: Physical sciences I, page 199

     Mössbauer spectrum of pure ?? Fe?O? (figure-1) shows a broadened sextate due to the presence of two subspectra.

   • 1987, Minoru Takahashi et al. [eds.], Proceedings of the International Symposium on Physics of Magnetic Materials, Sendai, Japan, April 8–11, 1987, page 392

     The spectrum could be best fitted with one sextate having broad lines which indicate the presence of more than one crystallographically nonequivalent iron sites.