dieciséis

Asturian

Asturian cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : dieciséis     Ordinal : decimosestu

Alternative forms

• selce

Etymology

From diez (“ten”) + y (“and”) + seis (“six”).

Numeral

dieciséis (indeclinable)

1. sixteen

Spanish

Spanish numbers ^(edit)

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Cardinal: dieciséis     Ordinal: decimosexto, décimo sexto     Ordinal abbreviation: 16.º     Fractional: dieciseisavo
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Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish dizeseis, diezeseis (literally “ten and six”), an analytical form (compare Galician dezaseis, Portuguese dezesseis, dezasseis) replacing Old Spanish seze, sedze, from Latin sēdecim (compare Catalan setze, French seize, Italian sedici).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /djeθiˈseis/ [d̪je.θiˈsei̯s]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /djesiˈseis/ [d̪je.siˈsei̯s]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -eis
• Syllabification: die‧ci‧séis

Numeral

dieciséis

1. sixteen

   Synonym: sece (obsolete)

Derived terms

• dieciseisavo

 

Descendants

• → Tagalog: disiseis

Further reading

• “dieciséis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28