Sexagenary
/ˌsɛksəˈdʒɛnəri/noun
Relating to sixty or to a sixty-year period.
Did you know?The term comes from Latin *sexagenarius*, and in East Asian tradition the 60-year cycle became a sacred time loop for destiny, rebirth, and calendrical fate.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*swéḱs
“six”
Latin
Latin
sex
“six”
Classical Latin
Latin
sexagenarius
“sixty each; consisting of sixty”
Late Latin
Latin
sexagenārius
“a person sixty years old; sixty-year-old”
Middle English
English
sexagenarie
“sixty-year period; sixty years old”
Modern English
English
sexagenary
“relating to sixty or a sixty-year cycle”
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