Where does “sexagies” come from?

sexagies (Latin) comes from Latin sexāgintā, from Proto-Indo-European sweḱsḱomt, from Proto-Indo-European swéḱs-dḱomt — six-ten.

sexagies (Latin): sixty times

Definitions

  1. sixty times

Ancestry of “sexagies”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinsexāgintāsixty; 60
2Proto-Indo-Europeansweḱsḱomt—
3Proto-Indo-Europeanswéḱs-dḱomtsix-ten
Every word from Proto-Indo-European swéḱs-dḱomt →Every word from Proto-Indo-European sweḱsḱomt →Every word from Latin sexāgintā →
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