sixte

French

sixte (uncountable)

1. (fencing) The sixth defensive position, with the sword hand held at chest height, and the tip of the sword at eye level.

• exist, exits

• IPA^(key): /sikst/

sixte f (plural sixtes)

1. (music) Interval of six notes.
2. (fencing) sixte.

sixte m (plural sixtes)

1. (law) Sixth part of a tithe which belongs to a lord.

• syxte, sexte, seste, zixte, sixt, syxt, sext, sexþe, sixþe

From Old English siexta, from Proto-Germanic *sehstô. Equivalent to six +‎ -th (which some forms are remodeled on; though this is rare in Middle English, unlike than in fifte). Forms with -st- are from the Old English variant sesta.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsikst(ə)/, /ˈsɛkst(ə)/
• (rare) IPA^(key): /ˈsiksθ(ə)/, /ˈsɛksθ(ə)/
• (Early ME) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛst(ə)/

sixte

1. sixth

• English: sixth (confer obsolete sixt)
• Scots: sixt, sext, saxt

• “sixt(e (num.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-22.

sixte

1. A sixth; something which is sixth.
2. (rare) A musical sixth or a note a sixth away from another given note.

• English: sixth (confer obsolete sixt)
• Scots: sixt, sext, saxt

• “sixt(e (num.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-22.