sexta

sexta is a Latin form of sextus, meaning “sixth”. It is the nominative plural neuter adjective or vocative plural neuter adjective or accusative plural neuter adjective or ablative singular feminine adjective.

Found 61 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 1.80: … laque constituta et dimissos equites pabulandi causa animum adverterunt, sese subito proripiunt hora circiter sexta eiusdem diei et spem nacti morae discessu nostrorum equitum iter facere incipiunt. Qua re animum adversa Caes …

Ovid, Metamorphoses 8.11: Sexta resurgebant orientis cornua lunae,

Plautus, Epidicus 2.1.179: neque séxta aerumna acérbior Herculí, quam illa mihi obiéctast.

All forms of sextus (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.