sixty

Meanings

1. 1
   num

   The cardinal number occurring after fifty-nine and before sixty-one, represented in Roman numerals as LX and in Arabic numerals as 60.

   […]the remaining three hundred and sixty words were then vetted with a battery of references. Six potential Mountweazels emerged.

2. 2
   noun

   A commercial lasting 60 seconds.

   […] instead of thirties [thirty-second commercials], they buy sixties, which cost twice as much. They spend more on filming it than they need to; they buy a lot of ads that are garbage and don't really say anything, just to fill up the space.

3. 3
   adj

   being ten more than fifty

4. 4
   noun

   the cardinal number that is the product of ten and six

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English sixty, sexty, Old English sixtiġ, from Proto-Germanic *sehs tigiwiz (“sixty”), equivalent to six + -ty. Cognate with Scots sexty, saxty (“sixty”), Saterland Frisian säkstich (“sixty”), West Frisian sechstich (“sixty”), Dutch zestig (“sixty”), German Low German sesstig (“sixty”), German sechzig (“sixty”), Swedish sextio (“sixty”), Norwegian seksti (“sixty”), Icelandic sextíu (“sixty”). Compare also Sanskrit षष्टि (ṣaṣṭi).