Where does “sixte” come from?

sixte (Middle French) comes from Old French siste, from Old French sexte, from Latin Sextus, from Latin sex, from Proto-Italic seks, from Proto-Indo-European swéḱs — six.

Ancestry of “sixte”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchsistesixth ordinal adjective
2Old Frenchsexte
3LatinSextusparticularly popular in Gaul. (Occasionally also found as a cognomen.) In particular
4Latinsexsix; 6
5Proto-Italicsekssix
6Proto-Indo-Europeanswéḱssix

Words derived from “sixte

Every word from Proto-Indo-European swéḱs