English Online Dictionary. What means sixth? What does sixth mean?
English
Alternative forms
- sixt (obsolete)
Etymology
From earlier sixt, from Middle English sixte, from Old English siexta, from Proto-Germanic *sehstô.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɪksθ/, [sɪkθ], [sɪk(s)t̪] (before a consonant often reduced to [sɪks])
- Rhymes: -ɪksθ, -ɪkθ
- Homophone: six (frequent reduced form before a consonant)
Adjective
sixth (not comparable)
- The ordinal form of the number six.
Synonyms
- 6th, 6th, VIth; (in names of monarchs and popes) VI
Translations
Noun
sixth (plural sixths)
- (not used in the plural) The person or thing in the sixth position.
- One of six equal parts of a whole.
- (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.)
Synonyms
- (one of six equal parts): ⅙
Translations
Verb
sixth (third-person singular simple present sixths, present participle sixthing, simple past and past participle sixthed)
- to divide by six, which also means multiplying a denominator by six