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sedicesimo

sixteenth

adjective seh-dee-CHEH-zee-moh Rare

Usage Note

Sedicesimo is the ordinal for 16. Like all Italian ordinals it agrees in gender and number: sedicesima, sedicesimi, sedicesime. In music, una sedicesima (or semicroma) is a sixteenth note. The cardinal is sedici; ordinals above ten are formed regularly by adding -esimo to the cardinal.

Examples

"Abita al sedicesimo piano."

Natural Translation

She lives on the sixteenth floor.

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