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A sexagenarian is a person who is 60 to 69 years old — in their sixties. You can use it as a noun (a sexagenarian) or as an adjective (sexagenarian voters). It is a rather formal, word: newspapers, doctors, and writers of life stories like it. In everyday talk, people just say someone is in their sixties, or sixty-something. Though actually, some speakers stretch it a little and use it for anyone around 60, not only the strict 60–69 window. It has nothing to do with sex (male and female). The sex- here is Latin for six, because sixty is six tens. Ordinary English has a small set of these decade-of-life words (the seventies, eighties, nineties), but sexagenarian itself stays on the formal side.
六十幾歲的人(嚴格說是 60 到 69 歲)。書面、正式;日常多半說「六十幾歲」。拉丁文 sex- 是「六」,和「性」無關。
組成From Latin sexāgēnārius (“containing 60”) + English -an (making adjectives and nouns for a kind of person). The Latin is from sexāgēnus (“60 each”) + -ārius (“-ary”), from sexāgintā (“six tens, 60”). English took it either straight from Latin or through French sexagénaire.
同家族的字
- septuagenariansame Latin age-decade pattern: a person in their seventies
- octogenariansame pattern: a person in their eighties
- nonagenariansame pattern: a person in their nineties
- Sexagesimasame Latin sexāgintā, “sixty”
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
sexagenariannoun/ˌsɛksəd͡ʒɪˈnɛɹiən/
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Synonym of sixtysomething: a person between 60 and 69 years old.
- 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…).
sexagenarianadj/ˌsɛksəd͡ʒɪˈnɛɹiən/
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Of or related to sixtysomethings.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。