Dictionary Definition
sixth adj : coming next after the fifth and just
before the seventh in position [syn: 6th]
Noun
1 position six in a countable series of
things
2 a sixth part [syn: one-sixth]
3 the musical interval between one note and
another six notes away from it
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /sɪksθ/, /sIksT/
Adjective
- The ordinal form of the number six.
Abbreviations
- 6th, 6th; (in names of monarchs and popes) VI
Translations
sixth
- Anglo-Saxon: siexta (abbreviation 6., 6ta)
- Arabic: ,
- Breton: c'hwec'hvet
- Catalan: sisè (abbreviation 6è)
- Crimean Tatar: altıncı
- Czech: šestý (abbreviation 6.)
- Danish: sjette (abbreviation 6.)
- Dutch: zesde (abbreviations 6de, 6e)
- Esperanto: sesa
- Finnish: kuudes
- French: sixième (before the noun) (abbreviation 6ème); (in names of monarchs and popes) six (after the name) (abbreviation VI)
- German: sechste (abbreviation 6.)
- Indonesian: keenam (abbreviation ke-6)
- Interlingua: sexte (abbreviation 6e)
- Irish: séú (abbreviation 6ú)
- Italian: sesto , sesta (before the noun) (abbreviations 6º , 6ª ); (in names of monarchs and popes) sesto , sesta (after the name) (abbreviation VI)
- Japanese: 六番目 (ろくばんめ, rokuban-me)
- Lithuanian: šeštas, šešta
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: شهشهم
- Maltese: is-sitt
- Manchu: (ningguci)
- Manx: sheyoo (abbreviation 6oo)
- Polish: szósty , szósta , szóste (abbreviation 6.)
- Portuguese: sexto , sexta (abbreviations 6º, 6ª)
- Romanian: şaselea, şasea
- Russian: шестой
- Slovene: šesti , šesta , šesto
- Spanish: sexto , sexta (abbreviations 6º , 6ª )
- Swedish: sjätte (abbreviation 6:e)
- Tatar: алтынчы
- Turkish: altıncı (abbreviation 6.)
- Vietnamese: thứ sáu
- Welsh: chweched (abbreviation 6ed)
- West Frisian: sechste, seisde (abbreviation 6e)
Noun
sixth (plural sixths)- (not used in the plural) The person or thing in the sixth position.
- One of six equal parts of a whole.
- The interval between a note and another six tones higher.
Translations
person or thing in sixth place
- Finnish: kuudes
- French: sixième
- Interlingua: sexto , sexta
- Italian: sesto, sesta
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: شهشهم
- Lithuanian: šeštas, šešta
- Portuguese: sexto, sexta
- Romanian: cel al şaselea , cea a şasea
- Slovene: šesti , šesta , šesto
one of six equal parts of a whole
- Finnish: kuudennes, kuudesosa
- French: sixième
- Interlingua: sexto
- Italian: sesto
- Lithuanian: šeštadalis
- Portuguese: sexto
- Romanian: şesime
- Slovene: šestina
interval
- Slovene: seksta
Related terms
Extensive Definition
The submediant, and the chord built
on the submediant, is often simply called the sixth as it is the
sixth scale degree.
The note of a chord forming the interval of a
sixth with the chord's root, such
as in the chords G6 or G6 added 9, is known as the sixth of the
chord.
sixth in Hebrew: סקסטה
sixth in Russian: Секста
sixth in Ukrainian: Секста
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
consecutive intervals, decimalization, decimation, degree, diapason, diatessaron, diatonic
interval, diatonic semitone, enharmonic diesis, enharmonic
interval, fifth, fourth, half step, halftone, hexad, hexadic, hexagonal, hexahedral, hexamerous, hexangular, hexapartite, hexastyle, hexatomic, hexavalent, interval, less semitone,
melodic interval, note,
octave, parallel octaves,
quinquepartition,
quinquesection,
second, semitone, senary, seventh, sexennial, sextipartite, sextipartition, sextuple, sixfold, step, tenth, third, tithe, tone, unison interval, whole
step