sessenta

Portuguese

Portuguese numbers ^(edit)

		600
←  50	←  59	60	61  →	70  →
		6
Cardinal: sessenta     Ordinal: sexagésimo     Ordinal abbreviation: 60.º     Fractional: sexagésimo, sessenta avos

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese sesaenta, from Latin sexāgintā, from Proto-Indo-European *sweḱsḱomt, from earlier *swéḱs-dḱomt (“six-ten”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /seˈsẽ.tɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /seˈsẽ.tɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /seˈsẽ.ta/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /sɨˈsẽ.tɐ/

• Rhymes: -ẽtɐ
• Hyphenation: ses‧sen‧ta

Numeral

sessenta m or f

1. sixty

Noun

sessenta m (plural sessentas)

1. sixty

Related terms

• seis