Etymology

sixte

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Today it means: The sixth defensive position, with the sword hand held at chest height, and the tip of the sword at eye level. Full definition →

French sixte ← Middle French sixte ← Old French siste
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  1. Latin · derived fromsextus
  2. Old French · derived fromsiste
  3. Middle French · derived fromsixte
  4. French · borrowed fromsixte
  5. English todaysixte

Borrowed from French sixte, from Middle French sixte, from Old French siste, sixte, modification of sexte (“sixth”) (a borrowing from Latin sextus) after sis (“six”).

Words from the same roots

Latinsextus all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.