siesta
English
WOTD – 24 March 2012
Etymology
From Spanish siesta, from Latin sexta (“the sixth hour from dawn, noon, midday”). Doublet of sext.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /siˈɛstə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /siˈɛstə/
Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛstə
Noun
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
Translations
an afternoon nap
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Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsie̯stɑ/, [ˈs̠ie̞̯s̠tɑ̝]
- Rhymes: -iestɑ
- Syllabification(key): sies‧ta
Declension
| 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 siestainrare | ||
| 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. | |||
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Further reading
- “siesta”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (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
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsjɛ.sta/
- Rhymes: -ɛsta
- Hyphenation: siè‧sta
Further reading
- 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
Romansch
Spanish
La siesta.
Etymology
From Latin sexta (hora) (“sixth hour, noon”), feminine of sextus (“sixth”).[1] Doublet of sexto and sesma. Cognate with Portuguese and Catalan sesta.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsjesta/ [ˈsjes.t̪a]
- Rhymes: -esta
- Syllabification: sies‧ta
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- → 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
- Nicole Lewis (2022 August 9) “The Pleasurable Secret to Dealing With Extreme Heat”, in Slate, retrieved 2022-08-09
Further reading
- “siesta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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