sextula

Latin

Latin numbers (edit)
LXXII
72
    Cardinal: septuāgintā duo
    Fractional: sextula

Etymology

From sexta (sixth) +‎ -ula (forms a diminutive).

Noun

sextula f (genitive sextulae); first declension

  1. the sixth part of an uncia, the seventy-second part of an as

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative sextula sextulae
genitive sextulae sextulārum
dative sextulae sextulīs
accusative sextulam sextulās
ablative sextulā sextulīs
vocative sextula sextulae

References

  • sextula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • sextula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • sextula”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • sextula”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • sextula”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin