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sixteenth, a. and n.|sɪkˈstiːnθ, ˈsɪkstiːnθ|
Forms: α. 1 sexteᵹða, sex-, syxteoða, 3 sixteoþe, 3–4 sixteþe (4 syx-). β. 2 sixtenðe, 4–5 -tenthe, 6 -tenth, 6– sixteenth; 5 syxtenethe, 6 -tenth, -teenth; 4 sextenþe, -tenthe, 4, 6 -tenth; Sc. 5 sextend, 6 -teint (9 saxteent).
[f. sixteen + -th1, replacing OE. syxtéoða, etc. Cf. OFris. sextinda, -tenda, -tiensta (WFris. sechstjinde), MDu. sestiende (Du. zestiende), MLG. sesteende (LG. sesteinste), MHG. seh(s)zehende (G. sechzehnte, † sechszehnte), ON. and Icel. sextándi (Sw. sextonde, Da. sekstende).]
The ordinal numeral belonging to the cardinal sixteen.
A. adj.
1. In concord with a n. expressed or implied.
αa900O.E. Martyrol. 16 Jan. 18 On þone sexteoðan dæᵹ þæs monðes. c1000ælfric Gram. (Z.) 283 Sextus decimus, se syxteoða. 1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 5244 In þe sixteþe [c 1430 sixtene] ȝere of þe kinges kinedom. c1300St. Swithin 81 in E.E.P. (1862) 45 Eiȝte hondred ȝer and in þe sixteoþe ȝere. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) V. 145 In þe sixteþe ȝere he was i-made knyȝt.
βa1220Juliana 79, I þe Sixtenðe dei of feouerreres moneð. c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 221 Þe sextenþe [article is] þat þei ben verrey..myrrours of mekenesse. 1390Gower Conf. I. 3 The yer sextenthe of kyng Richard. 14..Lat.-Eng. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 610 Sedenus, the syxtenethe. 1473Rental Bk. Cupar-Angus (1879) I. 180 Wil Smith and John eldar a ilkane of thir a sextend pairt. 1579Fulke Heskins' Parl. 188 The sixteenth Chapter endeth the exposition. 1589in Exch. Rolls Scotl. XXII. 27 The fewferm of the sexteint pairt of the landis. 1611Cotgr., Seziesme, the sixteenth in ranke, number, &c. a1700Evelyn Diary 15 July 1669, I went towards home the sixteenth. 1728Chambers Cycl. s.v. Bible, The New Latin Translations, done..in the 16th Century. 1850J. H. Newman Difficulties Anglicans i. xii. (1891) 388 The shadow of the fifth century was on the sixteenth. 1866C. M. Yonge Dove in Eagle's Nest xi, Within a week of their sixteenth birthday.
2. sixteenth note, the sixteenth part of a semibreve; a semiquaver.
1861J. S. Adams 5000 Mus. Terms 92.
B. n.
1. A sixteenth part.
1611Cotgr., Seziesme, a sixteenth; a sixteenth part. 1769St. James's Chron. 14–16 Sept. 3/3 The Tickets..are..divided into Halves, Quarters, Eighths and Sixteenths. 1832J. Rennie Butterfl. & M. 31 Wings of the male one inch to one inch one-sixteenth. 1867Denison Astron. without Math. 176 The fourth a quarter as wide, or one sixteenth as large. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. III. 742 One thirty-second to one sixteenth of a grain of periodide.
2. Mus.
a. The interval of two octaves and a second.
b. A sixteenth note.
1876Hardy Ethelberta xlii, He'll keep me there while he tweedles upon the Twelfth and Sixteenth.
Hence sixˈteenthly adv., in the sixteenth place.
a1642Sir W. Monson Naval Tracts iii. (1704) 322/1 Sixteenthly, They ought to appoint a Surveyor. 1691–8Norris Pract. Disc. (1711) III. 170 And Sixteenthly, the Glory that Virtue casts about the Head of those who suffer this little Martyrdom. 1819Scott Leg. Montrose xiv, Never..was a sermon listened to with more impatience... The Captain heard ‘sixteenthly’—‘seventeenthly’—‘eighteenthly’, and ‘to conclude’. |