The corpus record — Latin

sex

six

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Where it lives

Pro Sex. Roscio Amerino 74 · 55.87/10k
Pro P. Quinctio 44 · 50.9/10k
Medicamina faciei femineae 2 · 32.63/10k
Griphus Ternarii numeri 2 · 18.69/10k
Dittochaeon 2 · 16.34/10k
Tacitus 4 · 12.96/10k
Ausonii de XII Caesaribus per Suetonium Tranquillum scriptis 1 · 11.76/10k
Pro C. Rabirio Perduellionis Reo Ad Quirites 4 · 11.27/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 43-44 - 43 6 · 10.46/10k
Divus Claudius 3 · 10.11/10k
De Bello Hispaniensi 6 · 9.91/10k
Timaeus 4 · 9.47/10k

Densest 12 of 169 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. sex — de Vaan

sex 'six' [num. indecl.] (PL+) Derivatives: sexaginta 'sixty' (Cato+), sexagesimus 'sixtieth' (Ter.+), sexagem [pl.adj.] 'sixty at a time' (P1.+); sexennis 'six years old' (P1.+), sen! [pLadj.] 'six at a time' (P1.+), sedecim 'sixteen' (PL+), sescentj [pl.adj.] 'six hundred; innumerably many' (PL+), semestris 'of six months, lasting six months' (Varro+); sextus 'sixth' (P1.+), sexfilis [adj.] 'name of the sixth … — [de Vaan, s.v. sex, p. 574]

2. sex — Lewis & Short

sex (also written VI., and in inscrr. SEXS; cf. num. adj.cf. Sanscr. shash, Gr. e(/c, Goth. saihs, Germ. sechs, Engl. six,

Inscr. Orell. 3745),

I six: sex minae, Plaut. Capt. 5, 2, 21: dies, id. Cist. 2, 1, 13: menses, Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 46; id. Ad. 3, 3, 42: sex aut septem loca, Lucr. 4, 577: suffragia, Cic. Rep. 2, 22, 39: sex et nonaginta, id. ib.: sex et quinquaginta milia passuum, id. Rosc. Am. 7, 19: decem et sex milia peditum armati, Liv. 37, 40: inter Bis sex famulas (= duodecim), Ov. M. 4, 220; Verg. A. 9, 272: sex septem, six or seven, Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 41; Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 58; v. septem, sex primi, sexprimi.

In the wild

6 of 1,010 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. sex (scan p. 574; entry #1625). Root candidates: *seks-.

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