sescenti
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Latin
[edit]← 500 | DC 600 |
700 → |
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60 | ||
Cardinal: sescentī, sexcentī Ordinal: sescentēsimus Proportional: sescentuplus Distributive: sescēnus |
Alternative forms
[edit]- Symbol: DC
Etymology
[edit]From sex (“six”) + centum (“hundred”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /sesˈken.tiː/, [s̠ɛs̠ˈkɛn̪t̪iː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /seʃˈʃen.ti/, [seʃˈʃɛn̪t̪i]
Numeral
[edit]sescentī (feminine sescentae, neuter sescenta); first/second-declension numeral, plural only
- six hundred; 600
Usage notes
[edit]Used as a plural adjective. For more information see Appendix:Latin cardinal numbers.
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective, plural only.
Number | Plural | ||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
Nominative | sescentī | sescentae | sescenta |
Genitive | sescentōrum | sescentārum | sescentōrum |
Dative | sescentīs | ||
Accusative | sescentōs | sescentās | sescenta |
Ablative | sescentīs | ||
Vocative | sescentī | sescentae | sescenta |
Descendants
[edit]- Direct reflexes:
- >? Sardinian: seschentos
- Later formations ('six' + 'hundred'):
- Catalan: sis-cents
- French: six cents
- Italian: seicento
- Occitan: sièis cents
- Portuguese: seiscentos
- Spanish: seiscientos
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- Pittau, Massimo. 1972. Grammatica del sardo-nuorese: Il più conservativo dei parlari neolatini. Bologna: Pàtron. §130.
Further reading
[edit]- “sescenti”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sescenti”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sescenti in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.