numeralfirst/second-declension numeral, plural only
sescentī
sescentī (feminine sescentae, neuter sescenta)
Classical[sɛsˈkɛn.tiː]Ecclesiastical[seʃˈʃɛn.ti]
Mille Verba core vocabulary
Meaning
- numeralpluralplural onlysix hundred; 600
- metonymicallynumeralpluralplural onlyan immense number
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
DC, sescentīsexcentī -ae -a — in IVLIANVS I: Gallia, ch. 17
Declension
| form | masculine | feminine | neuter |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | sescentī sexcentī | sescentae sexcentae | sescenta sexcenta |
| genitive | sescentōrum sexcentōrum | sescentārum sexcentārum | sescentōrum sexcentōrum |
| accusative | sescentōs sexcentōs | sescentās sexcentās | sescenta sexcenta |
| vocative | sescentī sexcentī | sescentae sexcentae | sescenta sexcenta |
ses-centi (less correctly sex-centi; cf. Ritschl Proleg. ad Plaut. p. 114), ae, a,
I. num. card. adj. [sex-centum].
I. Prop., six hundred: sescenti aurei nummi Philippii. Plaut. Poen. 1, 1, 38:
Romuli aetatem minus his sescentis annis fuisse cernimus, Cic. Rep. 2, 10, 18: argenti sescentum ac mille, Lucil. ap. Non. 493, 32: curriculum longum sescentos pedes, Gell. 1, 1, 2.—II. Meton., like our hundred or thousand, to signify an immense number, an innumerable quantity, any amount, etc. (perh. because the Roman cohorts consisted originally of six hundred men; very freq. in prose and poet.):
sescentae ad eam rem causae possunt colligi, Plaut. Trin. 3, 3, 62: sescentas proinde scribito jam mihi dicas: Nihil do, Ter. Phorm. 4, 3, 63: venio ad epistulas tuas, quas ego sescentas uno tempore accepi, Cic. Att. 7, 2, 3: jam sescenti sunt, qui inter sicarios accusabant, id. Rosc. Am. 32, 90: sescentos cives Romanos, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 48, § 119.—As subst.: sescenta, ōrum, n. plur., an immense number of things: sescenta sunt, quae memorem, si sit otium, Plaut. Aul. 2, 4, 41; cf. Cic. Div. 2, 14, 34; id. Att. 2, 19, 1; 6, 4, 1; 14, 12, 1: sescenta tanta reddam, si vivo, tibi, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 111; so id. Ps. 2, 2, 37.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
sēscentī (sexcentī) ae, a, adj. num.
sex+ centum, six hundred : Romuli aetatem minus his sescentis annis fuisse cernimus.—Often of an indefinite large number, a thousand, immense number, vast multitude, any amount : Sescentas scribito iam mihi dicas, T.: iam sescenti sunt, qui inter sicarios accusabant.—Plur n . as subst: sescenta praeterea, numberless other things .
Origins
From sex (“six”) + centum (“hundred”).
Later formations ('six' + 'hundred')
- Catalansis-cents
- Frenchsix cents
- Italianseicento
- Occitansièis cents
- Portugueseseiscentos
- Spanishseiscientos
Direct reflexes
- Sardinianseschentos
- Old Spanishsezientos