sexagenarian
- noun
- /ˌsɛksəˈdʒɛnəriən/
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sexagenario
- As a sexagenarian, she found joy in taking up new hobbies and learning new skills.
Examples
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My father was a sexagenarian.
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Whipp would see a decent, even fastidious man, straightforward, plain, a not-quite-with-it man, a bald, sexagenarian widower keeping up as well as he could.
Fiction book (1996) -
A sexagenarian, eh?
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Among those customarily seen in attendance was a distinguished sexagenarian, a gentleman whose fortune and fame were assured by his impeccable taste as a furnisher.
Academic text (1991) -
There's nothing sadder than all these almost elderly rock stars going on tour, flashing their sexagenarian pets and strutting around like they're still cool.
Fiction book (2000) -
Nerva, the sexagenarian hand-picked by the Senate to succeed Domitian, was followed by a string of emperors who lacked legitimate sons.
Academic text (2014) -
The sexagenarian enjoyed sharing stories from his youth with the younger generations.
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Many sexagenarians actively participate in community events to stay engaged and connected.
How Old
Surface Forms
Morphology
sexagenarian = sexagenary (opaque) = sexagen + ary + an
The final step adds a person-denoting suffix to a Latin combining form ('sexagen-') that is not familiar to average learners, so the relation to 'sixty' is not readily inferable.
Etymology
Sexagenarian comes from the Latin sexaginta, which means 'sixty'. So a sexagenarian is a person who is between sixty and sixty-nine years old.