sext
See also: sèxt
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɛkst/
- Homophone: sexed
- Rhymes: -ɛkst
Etymology 1
From Latin sexta (“sixth; sixth hour”).
Noun
sext (plural sexts)
- (historical) Noon, reckoned as the sixth hour of daylight.
- Synonyms: midday, noontide; see also Thesaurus:midday
- (Roman Catholicism) The service appointed for this hour.
- (music) A sixth: an interval of six diatonic degrees.
- (music, obsolete) An organ stop of two ranks of pipes an interval of a sixth apart.
Hypernyms
- (both): hour, canonical hour
- (service): liturgy of the hours, little hour
Translations
noon — see noon
midday Christian service
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Etymology 2
Blend of sex + text. As a verb, a back-formation from earlier sexting, formed from the noun.
Noun
sext (plural sexts)
- An electronic message, especially one sent by cell phone, involving sexual language or images.
- 2001 November 22, Baltimore Sun, p. 37:
- Embarrassed by a ‘Sext’ Message
- 2001 November 22, Baltimore Sun, p. 37:
Verb
sext (third-person singular simple present sexts, present participle sexting, simple past and past participle sexted)
- (intransitive and transitive) To send a sext.
- 2007 October 19, Cameron Millar, "Text Mad Brits Top League for Saucy Messages" in the Daily Star, p. 21 (caption):
- Rebecca Loos claimed she was 'sexted' by Beckham
- 2009 March 1, Wendyl Nissen, "Sexts Suk... Go 4 a Real D8" in the New Zealand Herald, p. 35:
- […] trying to get into the swing of things by texting my husband (I was a little tipsy, I will admit): "How do you sext someone?" hoping to engage in the latest trend. All I got was, "What!" in reply.
- 2010 October 16, Victoria Gehman, "Sex Suspended, Celibacy Supreme" in the Albany Student Press:
- The next day, Greg sexted me a few pictures of his package.
- 2013, Olukemi Lawani, First Steps to Flight, p. 3:
- We would talk on the phone for hours and then text and sext the rest of the day.
- 2022, “Billions”, performed by Caroline Polachek:
- Sexting sonnets / Under the tables
- 2007 October 19, Cameron Millar, "Text Mad Brits Top League for Saucy Messages" in the Daily Star, p. 21 (caption):
Synonyms
- sex-text
Derived terms
- sexter
- sextual
- sextually
Translations
to send a sext
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References
- "sext, n.¹", "n.²", "v.", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Catalan
| 60[a], [b] | ||
| [a], [b], [c] ← 5 | 6 | 7 → [a], [b], [c] |
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| Cardinal: sis Ordinal (Latinate): sext Ordinal (Central): sisè Ordinal (Valencian): sisé Ordinal abbreviation (Latinate): 6t Ordinal abbreviation (Central): 6è Ordinal abbreviation (Valencian): 6é Multiplier: sèxtuple | ||
| Catalan Wikipedia article on 6 | ||
Etymology
From Latin sextus (“sixth”).
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /ˈsest/
Adjective
sext (feminine sexta, masculine plural sexts or sextos, feminine plural sextes)
- (ordinal number) sixth
Synonyms
- sisè
Noun
sext m (plural sexts or sextos)
- (fractional number) sixth
Further reading
- “sext” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Middle English
Adjective
sext
- Alternative form of sixte
Noun
sext
- Alternative form of sixte
Pennsylvania German
| < 5 | 6 | 7 > |
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| Cardinal : sex Ordinal : sext | ||
Etymology
Compare German sechste, Dutch zesde, English sixth.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɛk͡st/
Adjective
sext
- sixth
Numeral
sext
- sixth