sesenta
/seˈsenta/ · B2 · num
sixty (the cardinal number occurring after fifty-nine and before sixty-one, represented in Roman numerals as LX and in Arabic numerals as 60)
6️⃣0️⃣ sesenta = sounds like 'say-sent-a': say sixty cents, a sixty
Sesenta comes from Latin sexaginta, 'sixty', built from sex (six) plus -ginta (tens). The 'se-' at the start echoes sex, so the first syllable points to six, and the whole word is six tens, or 60.