sixthとは

語源

From Middle English [Term?], 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
• Homophone: six (frequent reduced form before a consonant)

形容詞

sixth (not comparable)

1. The ordinal form of the number six.

同意語

6th, 6^th; (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

動詞

sixth (三人称単数 現在形 sixths, 現在分詞 sixthing, 過去形および過去分詞形 sixthed)

1. to divide by six, which also means multiplying a denominator by six
   • 1993 Dead Reckoning: Calculating Without Instruments page 102

     Why would anyone use sixthing when any (N — a2) divisible by 6 would also be divisible by 3? The answer is that sometimes the numerator and/or the denominator is simpler in sixthing,

関連する語

• French sixth
• Italian sixth
• major sixth
• minor sixth
• sixth sense