sexagenarian

English

Etymology

From Latin sexāgēnārius (“containing 60”) + -an (“forming adjectives and representative nouns”), either directly or via French sexagénaire, from Latin sexāgēnus (“60 each”) + -ārius (“-ary”), from sexāgintā (“six tens, 60”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌsɛksəd͡ʒɪˈnɛɹiən/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌsɛksəd͡ʒɪˈnɛəɹɪən/

Noun

sexagenarian (plural sexagenarians)

1. Synonym of sixtysomething: a person between 60 and 69 years old.
   • 2010 December 7, J.A., “Travel in style”, in The Economist‎^[1]:

     Luxury hotels and travel planners must be licking their lips at the prospect that a significant portion of those new sexagenarians will want the trip of a lifetime (and hang the kids' inheritance…).

Adjective

sexagenarian (not comparable)

1. Of or related to sixtysomethings.

   Coordinate terms: vicenarian, tricenarian, quadragenarian, quinquagenarian, semicentenarian, septuagenarian, nonagenarian, centenarian, supercentenarian

Synonyms

• sexagenary, hexagenarian

Derived terms

• sexagenarianism

Related terms

• sexagesimal

Translations

Of or related to people between 60 and 69 years of age

• Bulgarian: шестдесетгодишен (šestdesetgodišen)
• Catalan: sexagenari
• Czech: šedesátiletý (cs), 60letý (cs)
• Danish: sekstiårig, 60-årig
• French: sexagénaire (fr), soixantenaire (fr)
• Galician: sexasenario m, sexasenaria f, sexaxenario m, sexaxenaria f
• German: sechzigjährig (de)
• Hungarian: hatvanas (éveiben járó), hatvanvalahány éves, hatvanadik születésnapját betöltött
• Japanese: 六十代 (ja) (rokujūdai)
• Korean: 60대 (yuksipdae)
• Latin: sexāgēnārius
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sekstiårig, 60-årig

  Nynorsk: sekstiårig, 60-årig, sekstiårs

• Polish: sześćdziesięcioletni (pl)
• Portuguese: sexagenário (pt)
• Spanish: sexagenario
• Swedish: sextioårig (sv), 60-årig
• Turkish: altmışlı

References

• “sexagenarian, n. and adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2022.