sexagenaryadj.n.

Brit.

/ˌsɛksəˈdʒiːn(ə)ri/,

/ˌsɛksəˈdʒɛn(ə)ri/,

/sɛkˈsadʒᵻn(ə)ri/, U.S.

/ˌsɛksəˈdʒɛnəri/,

/sɛkˈsædʒəˌnɛri/

Forms: 1500s sexagenarie, 1500s– sexagenary.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin sexāgēnārius.

Etymology: < classical Latin sexāgēnārius that contains, or is identified in some way by, the number sixty, sixty years old, in post-classical Latin also sixtyfold (3rd cent.) < sexāgēnī sixty each ( < sexāgintā sixty ( < sex six (see sex- comb. form) + -ā- (after quadrāgintā forty) + -gintā , suffix forming cardinal numerals from thirty to ninety, related to decem ten: see decem- comb. form) + -ēnī , suffix forming distributive adjectives, after e.g. sēnī six apiece, six at a time, six) + -ārius -ary suffix¹. Compare Middle French, French sexagénaire (1425 as adjective, a1498 as noun). With sense A. 2 compare sexagenarian adj. With uses as noun compare earlier sexagesimal n. and sexagenarian n.In some dictionaries of the 18th and 19th centuries the word is stressed ˈsexagenary, in some of the 18th cent. sexaˈgenary.

A. adj.

1. Mathematics. Involving or based on the number 60; = sexagesimal adj. Now chiefly in sexagenary cycle n. at Compounds.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [adjective] > sixty > proceeding by sixties

sexagenary1594

sexagesimal1647

sexagecuple1708

sexagenal1876

1594 T. Blundeville Exercises i. xxvii. f. 33^v The Sexagenary progression is alwaies to be vsed, as well in Diuision as in Multiplycation.

1670 J. Flamsteed Let. 24 Jan. in Corr. (1995) I. 32 In the studie of..Mr. Halton I once saw one [sc. a mathematical canon] of Vlaccus to every ten sexagenary seconds.

1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Sexagenary Arithmetick.

1785 C. Hutton Math. Tables 1 Ptolemy, who used the sexagenary arithmetic for this division of chords and arcs, and for astronomical purposes.

1887 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 24 325 The manifold divisions permitted by the sexagenary scale give it convenient qualities, impossible to the lower scales.

2004 E.-J. Lee et al. Integrated Korean: Adv. 1 vii. 159 Year, month, day, and hour each have a corresponding sexagenary combination unit (kanji).

2. = sexagenarian adj. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > source or principle of life > age > [adjective] > specific age

seven?1440

yearing1451

year-old1556

yeared1583

seventy1590

two-year1596

quinquagenarian1603

septuagenary1605

twelvea1616

thirty1618

three-yearling1621

one-eared1645

quadragenarious1656

trimenstruous1656

septennian1662

sexagenarian1663

sexagenary1663

octogenarya1696

seven-year-old1713

quinquagenary1715

yearling1729

septuagesimal1781

septuagenarian1793

octogenarian1818

fortyish1821

seventeen-year-old1821

three-year-old1825

week-old1826

centenarian1828

day-old1831

70-year-old1832

quadragenarian1834

century-old1836

nonagenarian1877

teenaged1913

thirtyish1925

1663 J. Mayne tr. Lucian Part of Lucian sig. T3 Though he was a Sexagenary Bridegroome.

1755 Ld. Chesterfield in World 4 132 The sexagenary widow remembers that she was handsome, but forgets that it was thirty years ago.

1793 N. B. Halhed Imitations Epig. Martial i. 37 Laura's charms a spouse and lover share: The one a dry sexagenary beau,—And one a marmozet of Rotten-row.

1821 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 10 88 Some will have this to be the due consequences of sexagenary decay.

1860 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh (ed. 5) i. 37 I count it strange..That nearly all young poets should write old, That Pope was sexagenary [1856 sexagenarian] at sixteen.

1893 L. C. Smithers tr. T.-S. Gueullette Thousand & One Quarters of Hour 6 Hardly seventeen, she did not know how to reconcile herself to sexagenary sighs.

1999 Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, Va.) 11 Apr. 1 Hickey won't be a sexagenary dancer much longer, but he looks forward to soon becoming Virginia Beach's best-known septuagenary dancer when he turns 70 in a few months.

B. n.

1. Mathematics and Astronomy. = sexagesimal n. (now rare). Also: = sexagenary cycle n. at Compounds.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > ratio or proportion > fraction > [noun] > sexagesimal

sexagesimal1647

sexagenary1668

sexagesimal fraction?1683

1668 J. Glanvill Plus Ultra iii. 23 The Decimal Arithmetick, which avoids the tedious way of computing by Vulgar Fractions in..Sexagenaries in Astronomy.

1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I. (at cited word) Sexagesimal Fractions, or Sexagenaries, are such as have always 60 for their Denominator.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Sexagenary Tables, are Tables of proportional Parts, shewing the Product of Two Sexagenaries, or Sexagena's, that are to be multiplied; or the Quotient of Two, to be divided.

1809 W. Nicholson Brit. Encycl. VI. (at cited word) Sexagenary tables are tables of proportional parts, showing the product of two sexagenaries that are to be multiplied.

1908 L. B. Vaughan New Standard Hist. World I. 78 The chronology of China is measured not by centuries but by sexagenaries, the first cycle being made to commence with the sixtieth year of Hwang-Ti, in 2637 b. c.

1952 Harvard Jrnl. Asiatic Stud. 15 18 For this reason the years bing luu or čaγan luu of the following sexagenaries also drop out.

2. = sexagenarian n. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > person of specific age > [noun]

one-year-old?1609

cinquanter1611

sexagenariana1646

septuagene1657

quintagenarian1687

threescore1721

septuagenarian1744

centenarian1747

seven-year-old1762

septuagenary1792

centenary1800

nonagenarian1804

sexagenary1814

octogenarian1815

nine-year-old1828

octogenary1828

semi-centenarian1828

quinquagenarian1830

quadragenarian1839

seventeen-year-old1858

70-year-old1870

twenty-firster1912

1814 W. Scott Waverley II. xx. 314 The lad can sometimes be as dowff as a sexagenary like myself.

1841 T. Moore Mem. (1856) VII. 290 I..went down an English country dance of fifty couples on the stone floor, no trifling achievement for a sexagenary.

1920 R. Mantellini tr. G. D'Annunzio Virgin Anna in Tales of my Native Town xii. 264 Fra Vittorio was a sexagenary, reddened, strengthened and made happy by the juice of the grape.

Compounds

sexagenary cycle n. [after French cycle sexagénaire (1735 in the passage translated in quot. 1736), itself apparently used to translate Chinese gānzhī < the second element of tiāngān, lit. ‘heaven stem’ (of which there are a set of ten) + the second element of dìzhī, lit. ‘earth branch’ (of which there are a set of twelve), the two systems which, used in combination to count units of time, produce a cycle of sixty] a cycle of sixty years used in the calendar of China and some other countries of the Far East, based on the combination of two basic cycles of ten and twelve.

ΚΠ

1736 R. Brookes tr. J.-B. Du Halde et al. Gen. Hist. China I. 123 These things are already settled according to the current Year of the Sexagenary Cycle [Fr. cycle séxagénaire [sic]], or Chinese Century.

1795 T. Maurice Hist. Hindostan (1820) I. i. viii. 274 The emperor Yu,..who flourished..about the middle of the third great sexagenary cycle.

1992 S. P. Maran Astron. & Astrophysics Encycl. 93/1 In ancient Rome there was a 9-day ‘week’; whilst the Egyptians adopted a 10-day grouping and the Chinese a sexagenary cycle.

2005 L. Holford-Strevens Hist. Time vi. 103 There is also a sexagenary cycle used for year, month, day, and shí.

† sexagenary table n. Obsolete rare = sexagesimal table n. at sexagesimal adj. and n. Compounds.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > mathematical instruments > [noun] > table

compute manual1483

tariff1591

sexagenary table1594

table of multiplication1594

long measure1623

scale of numbers1630

Rudolphine Tables1635

multiplication table1657

chiliad1675

sexagesimal table1685

nautical card1700

pence table1706

numeration tablea1743

tablebook1755

ready reckoner1757

calculator1784

tables1828

times table1902

log tablec1935

1594 T. Blundeville Exercises ii. f. 39^v The description and vse of the Sexagenarie table.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	sexagenary
释义	sexagenaryadj.n. Brit. /ˌsɛksəˈdʒiːn(ə)ri/, /ˌsɛksəˈdʒɛn(ə)ri/, /sɛkˈsadʒᵻn(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˌsɛksəˈdʒɛnəri/, /sɛkˈsædʒəˌnɛri/ Forms: 1500s sexagenarie, 1500s– sexagenary. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin sexāgēnārius. Etymology: < classical Latin sexāgēnārius that contains, or is identified in some way by, the number sixty, sixty years old, in post-classical Latin also sixtyfold (3rd cent.) < sexāgēnī sixty each ( < sexāgintā sixty ( < sex six (see sex- comb. form) + -ā- (after quadrāgintā forty) + -gintā , suffix forming cardinal numerals from thirty to ninety, related to decem ten: see decem- comb. form) + -ēnī , suffix forming distributive adjectives, after e.g. sēnī six apiece, six at a time, six) + -ārius -ary suffix¹. Compare Middle French, French sexagénaire (1425 as adjective, a1498 as noun). With sense A. 2 compare sexagenarian adj. With uses as noun compare earlier sexagesimal n. and sexagenarian n.In some dictionaries of the 18th and 19th centuries the word is stressed ˈsexagenary, in some of the 18th cent. sexaˈgenary. A. adj. 1. Mathematics. Involving or based on the number 60; = sexagesimal adj. Now chiefly in sexagenary cycle n. at Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [adjective] > sixty > proceeding by sixties sexagenary1594 sexagesimal1647 sexagecuple1708 sexagenal1876 1594 T. Blundeville Exercises i. xxvii. f. 33^v The Sexagenary progression is alwaies to be vsed, as well in Diuision as in Multiplycation. 1670 J. Flamsteed Let. 24 Jan. in Corr. (1995) I. 32 In the studie of..Mr. Halton I once saw one [sc. a mathematical canon] of Vlaccus to every ten sexagenary seconds. 1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Sexagenary Arithmetick. 1785 C. Hutton Math. Tables 1 Ptolemy, who used the sexagenary arithmetic for this division of chords and arcs, and for astronomical purposes. 1887 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 24 325 The manifold divisions permitted by the sexagenary scale give it convenient qualities, impossible to the lower scales. 2004 E.-J. Lee et al. Integrated Korean: Adv. 1 vii. 159 Year, month, day, and hour each have a corresponding sexagenary combination unit (kanji). 2. = sexagenarian adj. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > age > [adjective] > specific age seven?1440 yearing1451 year-old1556 yeared1583 seventy1590 two-year1596 quinquagenarian1603 septuagenary1605 twelvea1616 thirty1618 three-yearling1621 one-eared1645 quadragenarious1656 trimenstruous1656 septennian1662 sexagenarian1663 sexagenary1663 octogenarya1696 seven-year-old1713 quinquagenary1715 yearling1729 septuagesimal1781 septuagenarian1793 octogenarian1818 fortyish1821 seventeen-year-old1821 three-year-old1825 week-old1826 centenarian1828 day-old1831 70-year-old1832 quadragenarian1834 century-old1836 nonagenarian1877 teenaged1913 thirtyish1925 1663 J. Mayne tr. Lucian Part of Lucian sig. T3 Though he was a Sexagenary Bridegroome. 1755 Ld. Chesterfield in World 4 132 The sexagenary widow remembers that she was handsome, but forgets that it was thirty years ago. 1793 N. B. Halhed Imitations Epig. Martial i. 37 Laura's charms a spouse and lover share: The one a dry sexagenary beau,—And one a marmozet of Rotten-row. 1821 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 10 88 Some will have this to be the due consequences of sexagenary decay. 1860 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh (ed. 5) i. 37 I count it strange..That nearly all young poets should write old, That Pope was sexagenary [1856 sexagenarian] at sixteen. 1893 L. C. Smithers tr. T.-S. Gueullette Thousand & One Quarters of Hour 6 Hardly seventeen, she did not know how to reconcile herself to sexagenary sighs. 1999 Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, Va.) 11 Apr. 1 Hickey won't be a sexagenary dancer much longer, but he looks forward to soon becoming Virginia Beach's best-known septuagenary dancer when he turns 70 in a few months. B. n. 1. Mathematics and Astronomy. = sexagesimal n. (now rare). Also: = sexagenary cycle n. at Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > ratio or proportion > fraction > [noun] > sexagesimal sexagesimal1647 sexagenary1668 sexagesimal fraction?1683 1668 J. Glanvill Plus Ultra iii. 23 The Decimal Arithmetick, which avoids the tedious way of computing by Vulgar Fractions in..Sexagenaries in Astronomy. 1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I. (at cited word) Sexagesimal Fractions, or Sexagenaries, are such as have always 60 for their Denominator. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Sexagenary Tables, are Tables of proportional Parts, shewing the Product of Two Sexagenaries, or Sexagena's, that are to be multiplied; or the Quotient of Two, to be divided. 1809 W. Nicholson Brit. Encycl. VI. (at cited word) Sexagenary tables are tables of proportional parts, showing the product of two sexagenaries that are to be multiplied. 1908 L. B. Vaughan New Standard Hist. World I. 78 The chronology of China is measured not by centuries but by sexagenaries, the first cycle being made to commence with the sixtieth year of Hwang-Ti, in 2637 b. c. 1952 Harvard Jrnl. Asiatic Stud. 15 18 For this reason the years bing luu or čaγan luu of the following sexagenaries also drop out. 2. = sexagenarian n. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > person of specific age > [noun] one-year-old?1609 cinquanter1611 sexagenariana1646 septuagene1657 quintagenarian1687 threescore1721 septuagenarian1744 centenarian1747 seven-year-old1762 septuagenary1792 centenary1800 nonagenarian1804 sexagenary1814 octogenarian1815 nine-year-old1828 octogenary1828 semi-centenarian1828 quinquagenarian1830 quadragenarian1839 seventeen-year-old1858 70-year-old1870 twenty-firster1912 1814 W. Scott Waverley II. xx. 314 The lad can sometimes be as dowff as a sexagenary like myself. View more context for this quotation 1841 T. Moore Mem. (1856) VII. 290 I..went down an English country dance of fifty couples on the stone floor, no trifling achievement for a sexagenary. 1920 R. Mantellini tr. G. D'Annunzio Virgin Anna in Tales of my Native Town xii. 264 Fra Vittorio was a sexagenary, reddened, strengthened and made happy by the juice of the grape. Compounds sexagenary cycle n. [after French cycle sexagénaire (1735 in the passage translated in quot. 1736), itself apparently used to translate Chinese gānzhī < the second element of tiāngān, lit. ‘heaven stem’ (of which there are a set of ten) + the second element of dìzhī, lit. ‘earth branch’ (of which there are a set of twelve), the two systems which, used in combination to count units of time, produce a cycle of sixty] a cycle of sixty years used in the calendar of China and some other countries of the Far East, based on the combination of two basic cycles of ten and twelve. ΚΠ 1736 R. Brookes tr. J.-B. Du Halde et al. Gen. Hist. China I. 123 These things are already settled according to the current Year of the Sexagenary Cycle [Fr. cycle séxagénaire [sic]], or Chinese Century. 1795 T. Maurice Hist. Hindostan (1820) I. i. viii. 274 The emperor Yu,..who flourished..about the middle of the third great sexagenary cycle. 1992 S. P. Maran Astron. & Astrophysics Encycl. 93/1 In ancient Rome there was a 9-day ‘week’; whilst the Egyptians adopted a 10-day grouping and the Chinese a sexagenary cycle. 2005 L. Holford-Strevens Hist. Time vi. 103 There is also a sexagenary cycle used for year, month, day, and shí. † sexagenary table n. Obsolete rare = sexagesimal table n. at sexagesimal adj. and n. Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > mathematical instruments > [noun] > table compute manual1483 tariff1591 sexagenary table1594 table of multiplication1594 long measure1623 scale of numbers1630 Rudolphine Tables1635 multiplication table1657 chiliad1675 sexagesimal table1685 nautical card1700 pence table1706 numeration tablea1743 tablebook1755 ready reckoner1757 calculator1784 tables1828 times table1902 log tablec1935 1594 T. Blundeville Exercises ii. f. 39^v The description and vse of the Sexagenarie table. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.n.1594
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