ˈsekst noun
( -s )
Etymology: Middle English sexte, from Late Latin sexta, from Latin, feminine of sextus sixth, from sex six + -tus, adjective suffix used especially to form ordinal numbers and past participles — more at six , -th
1. often capitalized : the fourth of the seven canonical hours or the sixth hour of the day according to the ancient Roman reckoning : 12 o'clock noon ; also : an office recited at this time or in the Roman Catholic Church often somewhat earlier
2.
[Latin sexta, feminine of sextus ]
a. : a musical interval of a sixth
b. : a pipe-organ mixture stop with two ranks of pipes consisting of a twelfth and a seventeenth that sound a sixth apart