# sixteen

Pronunciation: say "SIKS-teen" /ˈsɪks.tiːn/

## Numeral

1. The cardinal number after fifteen and before seventeen, written as 16 in Arabic numerals and XVI in Roman numerals.
   - Simple: The number that comes after fifteen and before seventeen, written as 16.
   - _The new stadium has sixteen entrances spaced around its perimeter._
   - _Sixteen states adopted the new safety standard within the first year._

## Origin

This word was inherited from Middle English "sextene," from Old English "sixtīene," from Proto-Germanic "*sehstehun." It is related to Dutch "zestien" and German "sechzehn," and is equivalent to "six" plus "-teen."

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/sixteen (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).