sexagenarian

English

Etymology

From Latin sexāgēnārius (“containing 60”) + -an (“forming adjectives and representative nouns”), either directly or via French sexagénaire, from Latin sexāgēnī (“60 each”) + -ārius (“-ary”), from sexāgintā (“six tens, 60”).

Pronunciation

(General American) IPA^(key): /ˌsɛksəd͡ʒɪˈnɛɹiən/
(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌsɛksəd͡ʒɪˈnɛəɹɪən/

Noun

sexagenarian (plural sexagenarians)

Synonym of sixtysomething: a person between 60 and 69 years old.

Adjective

sexagenarian (not comparable)

Of or related to sixtysomethings.
Coordinate terms: vicenarian, tricenarian, quadragenarian, quinquagenarian, semicentenarian, septuagenarian, nonagenarian, centenarian, supercentenarian

Synonyms

sexagenary, hexagenarian

Derived terms

sexagenarianism

Related terms

sexagesimal

Translations

Of or related to people between 60 and 69 years of age

Bulgarian: шестдесетгодишен (šestdesetgodišen)
Catalan: sexagenari
Czech: šedesátiletý (cs), 60letý (cs)
Danish: sekstiårig, 60-årig
French: sexagénaire (fr), soixantenaire (fr)
Galician: sexasenario m, sexasenaria f, sexaxenario m, sexaxenaria f
German: sechzigjährig (de)
Hungarian: hatvanas (éveiben járó), hatvanvalahány éves, hatvanadik születésnapját betöltött
Japanese: 六十代 (ja) (rokujūdai)
Korean: 60대 (yuksipdae)
Latin: sexāgēnārius
Norwegian:
Bokmål: sekstiårig, 60-årig
Nynorsk: sekstiårig, 60-årig, sekstiårs
Polish: sześćdziesięcioletni (pl)
Portuguese: sexagenário (pt)
Spanish: sexagenario
Swedish: sextioårig (sv), 60-årig
Turkish: altmışlı

References

“sexagenarian, n. and adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2022.