sixfold

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English sexfold, from Old English sixfeald. Equivalent to six +‎ -fold. === Adjective === sixfold (not comparable) Having six times as much or as many. Having six component parts. 1605, Andrew Willet, Hexapla in Geneſin, That Is, A Sixfold Commentarie Upon Genesis, wherein ſixe ſeverall tranſlations, that is the Septuagint, and the Chalde, two Latin, of Hierome, and Tremellius, two Engliſh, the great Bible , and the Geneva edition are compared. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Adverb === sixfold (not comparable) Times six, multiplied by six. I will return your investment sixfold. That's right, you'll have 600% of what you started with. 1885, Alexander Campbell, Speeches on Divers Occasions, page 101, "[He] would state that in [1842, there were] 3,448 letters ... received, and in 1865 [that total was] 18,222, or nearly sixfold more. ==== Translations ====