Sistine

//ˈsɪstiːn// adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to Pope Sixtus. not-comparable

    "The Sistine chapel was built by Pope Sixtus IV."

Example

More examples

"So that Michelangelo might paint certain figures on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, so that Shakespeare might write certain speeches and Keats his poems, it seemed to me worthwhile that countless millions should have lived and suffered and died."

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian sistino, from New Latin sixtīnus, from the Medieval Latin name Sixtus, from Latin Sextus.

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