sexagenary

The story

1. Latin · derived fromsexāgēnus“60 each”
2. French · derived fromsexagénaire
3. Latin · derived fromsexāgēnārius“sixty; sixty years old; a sixty-year-old”
4. English todaysexagenary

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.

Words from the same roots