释义 |
sext \ˈsekst\ noun (-s) Etymology: Middle English sexte, from Late Latin sexta, from Latin, feminine of sextus sixth, from sex six + -tus, adjective suffix used especially to form ordinal numbers and past participles — more at six, -th 1. often capitalized : the fourth of the seven canonical hours or the sixth hour of the day according to the ancient Roman reckoning : 12 o'clock noon; also : an office recited at this time or in the Roman Catholic Church often somewhat earlier 2. [Latin sexta, feminine of sextus] a. : a musical interval of a sixth b. : a pipe-organ mixture stop with two ranks of pipes consisting of a twelfth and a seventeenth that sound a sixth apart |