soixante
See also: souaixante
French
| 600[a], [b] | ||||
| ← 50 | ← 59 | 60 | 61 → [a], [b] | 70 → [a], [b] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | ||||
| Cardinal: soixante Ordinal: soixantième Ordinal abbreviation: 60e, (now nonstandard) 60ème | ||||
| French Wikipedia article on 60 | ||||
Etymology
From Old French soissante, seixante, from Latin sexāgintā, from Proto-Indo-European *sweḱsḱomt, from earlier *swéḱs-dḱomt (“six-ten”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /swa.sɑ̃t/
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Numeral
soixante (invariable)
- sixty
Related terms
- six
Further reading
- “soixante”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.