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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
sexagenary
 
SYLLABICATION:sex·ag·e·nar·y
PRONUNCIATION:  sk-sj-nr
ADJECTIVE:1. Relating to or proceeding by sixties. 2. Sexagenarian.
NOUN:Inflected forms: pl. sex·ag·e·nar·ies
A sexagenarian.
ETYMOLOGY:Latin sexgnrius, from sexgn, sixty each, from sexgint, sixty : sex, six; see sex– + -gint, ten times; see dek in Appendix I.
 
 
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