sixthとは意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• sixt (廃れた用法)

語源

From earlier sixt, from Middle English sixte, from 古期英語 siexta, from Proto-Germanic *sehstô.

発音

• IPA^(key): /sɪk(s)θ/, [sɪk(s)θ], [sɪk(s)t̪] (before a consonant often reduced to [sɪks])
• 韻: -ɪksθ, -ɪkθ
• Homophone: six (frequent reduced form before a consonant)

形容詞

sixth (not comparable)

1. The ordinal form of the number six.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Genesis 1:31:

     And * God ſaw euery thing that hee had made : and behold, it was very good. And the euening and the moꝛning were the ſixth day.

     Transliterated: And God saw everything that he had made: and behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

   • 1892, Western Association of Writers, Sayings and Doings of the Sixth General Meeting‎^[1], Jones Brothers Publishing Company, pages 271-272:

     Dr. Ridpath, in his usual happy manner, thanked the Executive Committee and the various members of the Association who had so earnestly cooperated with him in the work of the Sixth Annual Meeting now drawing to a close.

   • 2011 February 25, Peter Dicken, Global Shift, Sixth Edition: Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy‎^[2], Guilford Press, page xi:

     As this sixth edition is published in 2011, it is exactly 25 years since the publication of the first edition in 1986. That, in itself, is a very sobering thought, for all kinds of reasons.

同意語

6th, 6^th, VIth; (in names of monarchs かつ popes) VI

名詞

sixth (複数形 sixths)

1. (not used in the 複数形) The person or thing in the sixth position.
2. One of six equal parts of a whole.
3. (music) The interval between one note and another, five notes higher in the scale, for example C to A, a major sixth, or C to A flat, a minor sixth. (Note that the interval covers six notes counting inclusively, for example C-D-E-F-G-A.)

同意語

• (one of six equal parts): ⅙