/siks"tee ith/ , adj.
1. next after the fifty-ninth; being the ordinal number for 60.
2. being one of 60 equal parts.
n.
3. a sixtieth part, esp. of one ( 1 / 60 ).
4. the sixtieth member of a series.
[ bef. 1000; ME sixtithe, sixtiaghte, OE sixtighetha, sixteoghotha; see SIXTY, -ETH 2 ]