Words that come from Proto-Italic “seks”

260 words across 59 languages descend from Proto-Italic seks — including semester, siesta, sextant, sextet, sestet, sextile, sexto, sestina.

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English (48)

Latin (37)

Italian (36)

Catalan (16)

Esperanto (15)

French (9)

Portuguese (8)

Old Portuguese (7)

Spanish (6)

Romansch (5)

Old French (5)

Asturian (4)

Galician (3)

Ido (3)

Middle French (2)

Dalmatian (2)

Friulian (2)

Old Spanish (2)

Ligurian (2)

German (2)

Malay (2)

Norman (2)

Norwegian Bokmål (2)

Walloon (2)

Mauritian Creole (2)

Serbo-Croatian (2)

Romanian (2)

Sicilian (1)

Aragonese (1)

Mirandese (1)

Old Occitan (1)

Tagalog (1)

Manx (1)

Istro-Romanian (1)

Hungarian (1)

Venetian (1)

Ladin (1)

Armenian (1)

Emilian (1)

Greek (1)

Istriot (1)

Russian (1)

Aromanian (1)

Danish (1)

Swedish (1)

Corsican (1)

Sardinian (1)

Aklanon (1)

Finnish (1)

Norwegian Nynorsk (1)

Ladino (1)

Papiamentu (1)

Haitian Creole (1)

Louisiana Creole French (1)

Occitan (1)

Kabuverdianu (1)

Guinea-Bissau Creole (1)

Cebuano (1)

New Latin (1)