minute

Tok Pisin: minit

→ Baluchi: منٹ (minaṭṭ)

→ Bengali: মিনিট (miniṭ)

→ Burmese: မိနစ် (mi.nac)

→ Central Dusun: minit

→ Chichewa: miniti

→ Fiji Hindi: minit

→ Fijian: miniti

→ Gujarati: મિનિટ (miniṭ)

→ Hausa: minti

→ Hindi: मिनट (minaṭ)

→ Indonesian: menit

→ Malay: minit

→ Malayalam: മിനിറ്റ് (miniṟṟŭ)

→ Maori: miniti

→ Marathi: मिनिट (miniṭ)

→ Nepali: मिनेट (mineṭ)

→ Odia: ମିନଟ (minaṭa)

→ Pashto: منټ (minëṭ)

→ Punjabi: ਮਿਨਟ (minaṭ)

→ Sinhalese: මිනිත්තුව (minittuwa)

→ Urdu: مِنَٹ (minaṭ)

From Middle English mynute, minute, mynet, from Old French minute, from Medieval Latin minūta (“60th of an hour; note”). Doublet of menu and menudo.

der

You have twenty minutes to complete the test.

A unit of time which is one sixtieth of an hour (sixty seconds).


second

From Middle English secunde, second, secound, secund, borrowed from Old French second, seond, from Latin secundus (“following, next in order”), from root of sequor (“I follow”), from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to follow”). Doublet of secund and secundo. Displaced native twoth and partially displaced native other (from Old English ōþer (“other; next; second”)).

noncog

perpetual motion machine of the second kind

He lives on Second Street.

The second volume in "The Lord of the Rings" series is called "The Two Towers".

You take the first one, and I'll have the second.

The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen.[…]The second note, the high alarum, not so familiar and always important since it indicates the paramount sin in Man's private calendar, took most of them by surprise although they had been well prepared.

1963, Margery Allingham, “Eye Witness”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 249:

Number-two; following after the first one with nothing between them. The ordinal number corresponding to the cardinal number two.


second

Something that is number two in a series.


sexagenarian

/ˌsɛksəd͡ʒɪˈnɛɹiən/

/ˌsɛksəd͡ʒɪˈnɛəɹɪən/

From Latin sexāgēnārius (“containing 60”) + -an (forming adjectives and representative nouns), either directly or via French sexagénaire, from Latin sexāgēnus (“60 each”) + -ārius (“-ary”), from sexāgintā (“six tens, 60”).

Luxury hotels and travel planners must be licking their lips at the prospect that a significant portion of those new sexagenarians will want the trip of a lifetime (and hang the kids' inheritance…).

2010 December 7, J.A., “Travel in style”, in The Economist:

Synonym of sixtysomething: a person between 60 and 69 years old.


threescore

From three + score, compare the etymology of Danish tres.

And their brethren, heads of the house of their fathers, a thousand, and seuen hundred and threescore, very able men for the worke of the seruice of the house of God.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Chronicles 9:13:

Words cannot picture her; but all men know
That solemn sketch the pure sad artist wrought
Three centuries and threescore years ago

1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, XXI

We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.

2012 January 20, Robert L. Dorit, “Rereading Darwin”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 2012-11-14, page 23:


sexagenary

/ˌsɛksəˈd͡ʒɛnəɹi/

/sɛkˈsæd͡ʒəˌnɛɹi/

/ˌsɛksəˈd͡ʒiːnəɹi/

/ˌsɛksəˈd͡ʒɛnɹi/

/ˌsɛksəˈd͡ʒɛnəɹi/

/sɛkˈsæd͡ʒɪnəɹi/

From Latin sexāgēnārius (“sixty; sixty years old; a sixty-year-old”) either directly or via French sexagénaire, from Latin sexāgēnus (“60 each”), from sexaginta (“six tens, sixty”). Cognate with sexagenarian.

der

The sexagenary cycle is formed by combining the twelve earthly branches representing the years of Jupiter's orbital cycle and the ten heavenly stems of the Shang-era week, stopping halfway through to reflect the pairing of yin and yang terms.

Of or related to the number sixty, particularly:

Of or related to the number sixty
Containing sixty years.

(now rare) Synonym of sexagenarian: lasting or aged sixty years; sixty-year-old.

sexagenarian

(mathematics, astronomy, now rare) Synonym of sexagesimal: base-60.

Of or related to the number sixty
Synonym of sexagesimal: base-60.


sexagenary

/ˌsɛksəˈd͡ʒɛnəɹi/

/sɛkˈsæd͡ʒəˌnɛɹi/

/ˌsɛksəˈd͡ʒiːnəɹi/

/ˌsɛksəˈd͡ʒɛnɹi/

/ˌsɛksəˈd͡ʒɛnəɹi/

/sɛkˈsæd͡ʒɪnəɹi/

(mathematics, astronomy, now rare) Synonym of sexagesimal: base-60 numeration.

(now rare) Synonym of sexagenarian: a sixty-year-old.


sexagesimal

From Medieval Latin sexagesimalis, from sexāgēsimus (“sixtieth”) + -ālis (“-al”), from sexāgintā (“sixty”). Cognate with sexagenary and sexagenarian. Cf. sextal.

The common English divisions of time, longitude, and latitude are all computed using sexagesimal arithmetic.

She then supplied a detailed description of the Babylonians, who had relied on a sexagesimal system―counting by sixties, she explained―for both mathematics and astronomy.

2022, Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry, Penguin (2023), page 325:

(mathematics) Of, related to, or based on the number sixty.


Sf

a book size one sixty-fourth of the size of a standard uncut sheet of paper (less 7.5 cm (3") in height)


sexagesimo-quarto

From Latin ablatives of sexāgēsimus (“sixtieth”) and quartus (“fourth”).

(paper) A paper size, (1.87"-2.5" x 2.5"-3.125"), one sixty-fourth of a standard uncut flat sheet.


sixty-fourmo

sexagesimo-quarto (as a paper size in printing).


hexecontahedron

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From Ancient Greek ἑξήκοντα (hexḗkonta, “60”) + -hedron, from Ancient Greek ἕδρα (hédra, “geometric face”).


sixtiethly

In the sixtieth place; sixtieth in a row.


en-noun

64mo (usually uncountable, plural 64mos)

39. Reed, C. A., H. F. Harvey, & R. I. Brasher. WESTERN BIRD GUIDE: Birds of the Rockies & West to the Pacific. 286 pgs with index. Color prints throughout. Red fabricoid, with chipped cardboard slipcase. Oblong 64mo. NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1937. Very good condition, with fair case. $21.50 [115273]

2000 April 29, Acorn Books, “FS: 2nd Miscellany of 25 NEW ARRIVALS, Sat., April 29, 2000.”, in rec.arts.books.marketplace (Usenet):

(paper, printing) A size of paper or book: 1.87"-2.5" x 2.5"-3.125".


sixtysomething

Those sixtysomethings are always lounging around the cabana.

(colloquial) A person between 60 and 69 years old.


diamond jubilee

diamond jubilee (plural diamond jubilees)

The diamond anniversary of a coronation, originally the 75th anniversary of a monarch's rule but now often the 60th instead.

diamantjubileum

60th or 75th anniversary of a coronation — see also diamond anniversary


hexacontane

From Ancient Greek ἑξήκοντα (hexḗkonta, “60”) + -ane (“saturated hydrocarbon”), from Latin -anus (“-an”).

(organic chemistry) Any saturated aliphatic hydrocarbon that has sixty carbon atoms, but especially n-hexacontane CH₃(CH₂)₅₈CH₃


hexacontagon

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From Ancient Greek ἑξήκοντα (hexḗkonta, “60”) + -gon, from Ancient Greek γωνία (gōnía, “corner”).


sexagesm

From Latin sexāgēsima (“sixtieth”), either directly or via French.

(mathematics, obsolete) Synonym of sexagesimal: a sixtieth part of something.


diamond wedding

diamond wedding (plural diamond weddings)

(uncommon) The diamond anniversary of a wedding, originally the 75th anniversary of a marriage but now often the 60th instead.


diamond anniversary

diamond anniversary (plural diamond anniversaries)

The 75th anniversary of some event, particularly a wedding.

The 60th anniversary of some event, particularly a wedding.


hexagenarian

Blend of hexa- + sexagenarian, from a conflation of Greek and Latin roots.

(uncommon, sometimes proscribed) Synonym of sixtysomething: a person between 60 and 69 years old.


(geometry) Synonym of hexacontagon: A 60-sided polygon.


sexagintaquattuornion

From Latin sexaginta quattuor (“sixty four”).

(mathematics) A 64-dimensional hypercomplex number.