siesta

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

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

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -ɛstə

siesta (plural siestas)

2. (countable) A nap, especially an afternoon one taken during the hottest part of the day 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 […]

   • 1986, “La Isla Bonita”, in True Blue, performed by Madonna:

     When it's time for siesta, you can watch them go by / Beautiful faces, no cares in this world

3. (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
• Syllabification^(key): sies‧ta
• Hyphenation^(key): sies‧ta

siesta

1. (countable) siesta (a nap, especially an afternoon one taken during the hottest part of the day in some cultures)

• “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 3 July 2023

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)

1. (countable) siesta (a nap, especially an afternoon one taken during the hottest part of the day in some cultures)

• “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): /ˈsjɛs.ta/
• Rhymes: -ɛsta
• Hyphenation: siè‧sta

siesta f (invariable)

1. (countable) siesta (a nap, especially an afternoon one taken during the hottest part of the day in some cultures)

• 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

Inherited from Old Spanish siesta, from Latin sexta (hora) (“sixth hour; noon”), feminine of sextus (“sixth”). Cognate with Catalan and Portuguese sesta.

siesta f (Hebrew spelling סייסטה)^[1]

1. (countable) siesta (a nap, especially an afternoon one taken during the hottest part of the day in some cultures)
   • 2002, Gad Nassi, editor, En Tierras Ajenas Yo Me Vo Murir: Tekstos Kontemporanos en Djudeo-espaniol : Leyenda de Una Lingua - Haketia - Kuentos. Memorias - Meliselda - Oki Oki‎^[2], Isis, →ISBN, page 225:

     Kadal diya, despues de aver kantado, dansado i konversado, kada una de eyas se iva para una siesta debasho de un arvole aparrte, sin ke kada una veyga a la otra.

     Every day, after having sung, danced and talked, each of them would go have a siesta separately under a tree, otherwise they’d all come to the other.

Inherited from Latin sexta (hora) (“sixth hour; noon”), feminine of sextus (“sixth”).

siesta f (plural siestas)

1. noon; midday

• Ladino: siesta, סייסטה
• Spanish: siesta
  • → Armenian: սիեստա (siesta)
  • → Cebuano: syista
  • → English: siesta
  • → Finnish: siesta
  • → French: sieste
    • → Romanian: siestă
  • → 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

• Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946) “siesta”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume II, Chapel Hill, page 470

siesta f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of siestă

Borrowed from Spanish siesta.

siesta f (plural siestas)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, countable) siesta (a nap, especially an afternoon one taken during the hottest part of the day in some cultures)

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

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

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

siesta f (plural siestas, diminutive siestecita)

1. (countable) siesta (a nap, especially an afternoon one taken during the hottest part of the day in some cultures)

   Antonym: duermevela

• “siesta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024