Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
To divide by six, equivalent to multiplying a denominator by six.
noun
The person or thing in the sixth position. · One of six equal parts of a whole. · The interval between one note and another, five notes higher in the scale; for example C to A, a major sixth, or C to A flat, a minor sixth.
adj
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryThe ordinal form of the number six.
From earlier sixt, from Middle English sixte, from Old English siexta, from Proto-Germanic *sehstô. By surface analysis, six + -th (ordinal suffix).
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