sexagesimal en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˌsɛk.səˈdʒɛ.sɪ.məl/
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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sweḱsḱomtder. Latin sexāgintā Latin -ēsimus Latin sexāgēsimus Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Medieval Latin sexagesimalisder. English sexagesimal From Medieval Latin sexagesimalis, from sexāgēsimus (“sixtieth”) + -ālis (“-al”), from sexāgintā (“sixty”). Cognate with sexagenary and sexagenarian. Cf. sextal.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Of, related to, or based on the number sixty.
She then supplied a detailed description of the Babylonians, who had relied on a sexagesimal system―counting by sixties, she explained―for both mathematics and astronomy.
2022, Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry, Penguin (2023), page 325:The first sixty argam form the basis for my own sexagesimal use, in the accounting of my business and in the dimensioning of buildings.
2014 November 24, Michael Thomas De Vlieger, “Multiplication Tables of Various Bases”, in The Number Base, archived from the original on 06 Feb 2023, page 43:The common English divisions of time, longitude, and latitude are all computed using sexagesimal arithmetic.
Deriveds
sexagesimally · trecentosexagesimal
Synonyms
Translations (19)
it sessagesimale (related to the number sixty) · nl zestigtallig (related to the number sixty) · es sexagesimal (related to the number sixty) · ja 六十進法 (related to the number sixty) · bg шестдесети (related to the number sixty) · eu hirurogeitar (related to the number sixty) · hi षष्टाधारी (related to the number sixty) · pt sexagesimal (related to the number sixty) · ko 육십진법 (related to the number sixty) · sv sexagesimal (related to the number sixty) · nl sexagesimaal (related to the number sixty) · pl sześćdziesiątkowy (related to the number sixty) · de sexagesimal (related to the number sixty) · ru шестидесятеричный (related to the number sixty) · cmn 六十進制 /六十进制 (related to the number sixty) · fi 60-kantainen (kuusikymmenkantainen) (related to the number sixty) · tr altmışlık (related to the number sixty) · tr altmışlı (related to the number sixty) · fr sexagésimal (related to the number sixty)