adjectivefirst/second-declension adjective
sexāgēnārius
sexāgēnārius (feminine sexāgēnāria, neuter sexāgēnārium)
Meaning
- adjectiveusuallyof or relating to sixty
Fistula sexagenaria.
A pipe sixty quarter-digits in diameter. - adjectivesexagenary, sixty years old; (as a noun) a man of sixty, a sexagenarian
Cicero objurgantibus, quod sexagenarius Publiliam virginem duxisset.
Declension
| form | masculine | feminine | neuter |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | sexāgēnārius | sexāgēnāria | sexāgēnārium |
| genitive | sexāgēnāriī | sexāgēnāriae | sexāgēnāriī |
| dative | sexāgēnāriō | sexāgēnāriae | sexāgēnāriō |
| accusative | sexāgēnārium | sexāgēnāriam | sexāgēnārium |
| ablative | sexāgēnāriō | sexāgēnāriā | sexāgēnāriō |
| vocative | sexāgēnārie | sexāgēnāria | sexāgēnārium |
| form | masculine | feminine | neuter |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | sexāgēnāriī | sexāgēnāriae | sexāgēnāria |
| genitive | sexāgēnāriōrum | sexāgēnāriārum | sexāgēnāriōrum |
| dative | sexāgēnāriīs | sexāgēnāriīs | sexāgēnāriīs |
| accusative | sexāgēnāriōs | sexāgēnāriās | sexāgēnāria |
| ablative | sexāgēnāriīs | sexāgēnāriīs | sexāgēnāriīs |
| vocative | sexāgēnāriī | sexāgēnāriae | sexāgēnāria |
sexāgēnārĭus, a, um, adj. sexageni.
I. In gen., of or containing sixty: fistula, a pipe sixty quarter-digits (quadrantes) in diameter, Front. Aquaed. 54:
PROCVRATIO, i. e. yielding sixty thousand sesterces, Inscr. Murat. 514, 1.—II. In partic., sixty years old, sexagenary; and subst., a man of sixty, a sexagenarian:
Cicero objurgantibus, quod sexagenarius Publiliam virginem duxisset, etc., Quint. 6, 3, 75; Suet. Claud. 23: (Hadrianus) obiit major sexagenario, Eutr. 8, 3, 8.—Men sixty years of age were no longer admitted to vote in the saepta, and, if they attempted to enter, were thrust back from the bridge leading to them; whence arose the proverb, Sexagenarios de ponte, Varr. ap. Non. 523, 21 sq.; Fest. p. 334 Müll.; cf.: depontani. (Many Romans, at an early period, erroneously referred this expression to a religious usage, and even to original human sacrifices; v. Fest. 1. 1., and Ov. F. 5, 621 sq.)—In a sarcastic equivoque, of actually flinging a man into the Tiber, Cic. Rosc. Am. 35, 100.Origins
From sexāgēnus (“sixty each”, distributive) + -ārius (denumeral adjective suffix), from sexāgintā (“sixty”).
Descendants
- Catalansexagenari
- Frenchsexagénaire
- Englishsexagenaryfrom French sexagénaire
- Englishsexagenarianfrom French sexagénaire
- Italiansessagenario
- Portuguesesexagenário
- Spanishsexagenario
- Galiciansesaxenario
In English words that came into English from sexāgēnārius
- sexagenariansexāgēnārius
- sexagenarysexāgēnārius