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別の表記

• Symbolic: 16
• Roman: XVI

語源

Inherited from 中期英語 sextene, sixtene, from 古期英語 sixtīene, from Proto-Germanic *sehstehun. Cognate with West Frisian sechstjin, Dutch zestien, German sechzehn, Danish seksten. Equivalent to six +‎ -teen.

発音

• (next word stressed near the first syllable)

  (英国発音, 米国発音) IPA: /ˈsɪks.tiːn/

• (next word stressed after the first syllable)

  (英国発音, 米国発音) IPA: /ˌsɪksˈtiːn/

• 韻: -iːn

数詞

sixteen

1. The cardinal number occurring after fifteen and before seventeen, represented in Arabic numerals as 16 and in Roman numerals as XVI.
   • 1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 8, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:

     Venters began to count them—one—two—three—four—on up to sixteen.

   • 2022, Jane Harper, Exiles, page 287:

     They'd spent one evening together sixteen months ago, and Falk was acutely aware that he'd probably airbrushed and edited at least some of it without meaning to.

派生語

関連する語

• Ordinal: sixteenth

参考

• Last: fifteen. Next: seventeen

アナグラム

• exteins, extines, sextine