Where does “6ºs” come from?
6ºs (Portuguese) comes from Portuguese sextos, from Portuguese sexto, from Old Portuguese sexto, from Latin sextus, from Latin sextilis, from Latin -ilis, from Proto-Italic -elis, from Proto-Indo-European -elis — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.
6ºs (Portuguese): masculine plural of 6º
Ancestry of “6ºs”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Portuguese | sextos | masculine plural of sexto |
| 2 | Portuguese | sexto | sixth |
| 3 | Old Portuguese | sexto | — |
| 4 | Latin | sextus | sixth |
| 5 | Latin | sextilis | Of August, the sixth month of the Roman calendar... |
| 6 | Latin | -ilis | -ile |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -elis | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -elis | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |