siesta

From Spanish siesta, from Latin sexta (“the sixth hour from dawn, noon, midday”). Doublet of sext.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /siˈɛstə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /siˈɛstə/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -ɛstə

siesta (plural siestas)

1. 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 […]

2. (attributive, sometimes offensive) Laid-back attitudes to work or laziness, especially by a Hispanic person.
   • 2001 February 1, Stanley E. Porter, Michael A. Hayes, David Tombs, Faith in the Millennium, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 21:

     Lest we think all of this is due to the proverbial inefficiency of the Latin American - 'siesta people' - we can see some of these signs, perhaps in a less dramatic way, in European societies and in the celebrated 'tigers' of South East Asia.

   • 2010 February 22, Hughes Oliphant Old, The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church, Vol. 7: Our Own Time, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, →ISBN, page 238:

     I had eaten a simple lunch, and in the relaxed siesta attitude that pervaded the place I settled back in my chair and looked at the mountains behind in all their austerity.

   • 2021 April 14, Michael J. Strada, Through the Global Lens: An Introduction to Social Sciences, Routledge, →ISBN:

     Many observers believe the subtropical environment contributes to a slow-paced, siesta culture in which nothing work-related is so important that it cannot wait until tomorrow.

• See Thesaurus:shut-eye
• (Laid-back attitude): mañana

siesta (third-person singular simple present siestas, present participle siestaing, simple past and past participle siestaed)

1. (intransitive) to take a siesta; to nap.

   Synonym: siest

• staies, tassie, Tassie, tesias

Borrowed from Spanish siesta.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsie̯stɑ/, [ˈs̠ie̞̯s̠tɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -iestɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): sies‧ta

siesta

1. siesta

• “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

Borrowed from Spanish siesta (“siesta, nap”), from Latin sexta (hora) (“sixth hour, noon”), feminine of sextus (“sixth”).

• IPA^(key): /si.ˈɛs.ta/
• Rhymes: -ta
• Hyphenation: si‧ès‧ta

sièsta (plural siesta-siesta, first-person possessive siestaku, second-person possessive siestamu, third-person possessive siestanya)

1. siesta: (afternoon) nap.

• “siesta” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Borrowed from Spanish siesta.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsjɛ.sta/
• Rhymes: -ɛsta
• Hyphenation: siè‧sta

siesta f (invariable)

1. siesta (brief afternoon nap)

• 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

• asseti, esista, estasi, issate

Borrowed from Spanish siesta.

siesta f (plural siestas)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) nap

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) durmida
• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Puter, Vallader) cupid
• (Sursilvan) tut
• (Sutsilvan) sien
• (Surmiran) cupidada, durmeidetta, cuc
• (Puter, Vallader) sönin
• (Vallader) sönet

 

From Latin sexta (hora) (“sixth hour, noon”), feminine of sextus (“sixth”).^[1] Doublet of sexto and sesma. Cognate with Portuguese and Catalan sesta.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsjesta/ [ˈsjes.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -esta
• Syllabification: sies‧ta

siesta f (plural siestas)

1. siesta, nap

   Antonym: duermevela

• “siesta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28