sixteen

• Symbolic: 16
• Roman: XVI

Inherited from Middle English sextene, sixtene, from Old English sixtīene, from Proto-Germanic *sehstehun. Cognate with West Frisian sechstjin, Dutch zestien, German sechzehn, Danish seksten. Equivalent to six +‎ -teen.

• (next word stressed near the first syllable)

  (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪks.tiːn/

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• (next word stressed after the first syllable)

  (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˌsɪksˈtiːn/

• Rhymes: -iːn

sixteen

2. The cardinal number occurring after fifteen and before seventeen, represented in Arabic numerals as 16 and in Roman numerals as XVI.
   • 1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 8, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:

     Venters began to count them—one—two—three—four—on up to sixteen.

   • 2022, Jane Harper, Exiles, page 287:

     They'd spent one evening together sixteen months ago, and Falk was acutely aware that he'd probably airbrushed and edited at least some of it without meaning to.

• Ordinal: sixteenth

• Last: fifteen. Next: seventeen

• exteins, extines, sextine

sixteen

1. alternative form of sixtene