siesta
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Spanish siesta, from Latin sexta (“the sixth hour from dawn, noon, midday”). Doublet of sext.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /siˈɛstə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /siˈɛstə/
Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛstə
Noun
[edit]siesta (plural siestas)
- A nap, especially an afternoon one taken after lunch in some cultures.
- 1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC:
- One humid afternoon a visitor did arrive to disturb Rottcodd as he lay deeply hammocked, for his siesta was broken sharply by a rattling of the door handle […]
Synonyms
[edit]Translations
[edit]an afternoon nap
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Verb
[edit]siesta (third-person singular simple present siestas, present participle siestaing, simple past and past participle siestaed)
- (intransitive) to take a siesta; to nap.
- Synonym: siest
Anagrams
[edit]Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]siesta
Declension
[edit]Inflection of siesta (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | siesta | siestat | |
genitive | siestan | siestojen | |
partitive | siestaa | siestoja | |
illative | siestaan | siestoihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | siesta | siestat | |
accusative | nom. | siesta | siestat |
gen. | siestan | ||
genitive | siestan | siestojen siestain rare | |
partitive | siestaa | siestoja | |
inessive | siestassa | siestoissa | |
elative | siestasta | siestoista | |
illative | siestaan | siestoihin | |
adessive | siestalla | siestoilla | |
ablative | siestalta | siestoilta | |
allative | siestalle | siestoille | |
essive | siestana | siestoina | |
translative | siestaksi | siestoiksi | |
abessive | siestatta | siestoitta | |
instructive | — | siestoin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Further reading
[edit]- “siesta”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]siesta f (invariable)
Further reading
[edit]- siesta in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
- siesta in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
- siesta in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
- siesta in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
- siesta in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
- siesta in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
[edit]Romansch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]siesta f (plural siestas)
Synonyms
[edit]- (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) durmida
- (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Puter, Vallader) cupid
- (Sursilvan) tut
- (Sutsilvan) sien
- (Surmiran) cupidada, durmeidetta, cuc
- (Puter, Vallader) sönin
- (Vallader) sönet
Spanish
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Children_sleeping_in_the_schools_in_Cuba.jpg/220px-Children_sleeping_in_the_schools_in_Cuba.jpg)
Etymology
[edit]From Latin sexta (hora) (“sixth hour, noon”), feminine of sextus (“sixth”).[1] Doublet of sexto and sesma. Cognate with Portuguese and Catalan sesta.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]siesta f (plural siestas)
- siesta, nap
- Antonym: duermevela
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Armenian: սիեստա (siesta)
- → Cebuano: syista
- → English: siesta
- → Finnish: siesta
- → French: sieste
- → German: Siesta
- → Greek: σιέστα (siésta)
- → Hungarian: szieszta
- → Italian: siesta
- → Japanese: シエスタ (shiesuta)
- → Norwegian: siesta
- → Romansch: siesta
- → Russian: сие́ста (sijésta)
- → Swedish: siesta
- → Tagalog: siyesta
- → Turkish: siesta
References
[edit]- ^ Nicole Lewis (2022 August 9) “The Pleasurable Secret to Dealing With Extreme Heat”, in Slate, retrieved 2022-08-09
Further reading
[edit]- “siesta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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- en:Sleep
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- Rhymes:Finnish/iestɑ
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- Italian terms borrowed from Spanish
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- Rhymes:Spanish/esta
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- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish feminine nouns
- es:Sleep