siesta

siesta

See also: siestă and šiesta

English

WOTD – 24 March 2012

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (AU)

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• Rhymes: -ɛstə

Noun

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 815613939:

     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

• See Thesaurus:shut-eye

Translations

an afternoon nap

Armenian: հետճաշյա հանգիստ (hetčašya hangist), սիեստա (hy) (siesta) Catalan: sesta (ca) f, migdiada (ca) f, becada (ca) f Cebuano: syista Chinese: Mandarin: 午睡 (zh) (wǔshuì), 午休 (zh) (wǔxiū), 午覺／午觉 (zh) (wǔjiào) Esperanto: siesto Finnish: siesta (fi), iltapäivätorkut pl, tupluuri French: sieste (fr) f German: Mittagsruhe (de) f, Siesta (de) f, Mittagsschlaf (de) m Greek: σιέστα (el) f (siésta) Hungarian: szieszta (hu) Ido: siesto (io) Italian: siesta (it) f, pennichella (it) f Japanese: 昼寝 (ja) (ひるね, hirune), 午睡 (ja) (ごすい, gosui), シエスタ (shiesuta) Latin: merīdiātiō f Macedonian: пла́дневна по́чинка f (pládnevna póčinka) Maori: moe ahiahi Norwegian: Bokmål: siesta m, middagshvil m, middagskvil m or f Nynorsk: siesta m, middagskvil m, middagskvild f Polish: poobiednia drzemka f Portuguese: sesta (pt) f, siesta (pt) f Russian: послеобеде́нный о́тдых m (posleobedénnyj ótdyx), сие́ста (ru) f (sijésta), (usually for children, especially in childcare) мёртвый час m (mjórtvyj čas), ти́хий час (ru) m (tíxij čas) Spanish: siesta (es) f Swedish: siesta (sv) c Tagalog: siyesta Vietnamese: ngủ trưa

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Translations to be checked

Telugu: (please verify) మధ్యాహ్న నిద్ర (madhyāhna nidra)

Verb

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

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

Synonyms

• siest

Anagrams

• Tassie, staies, tassie

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Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish siesta.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

siesta

1. siesta

Declension

Inflection of siesta (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)
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
instructive		—	siestoin
abessive		siestatta	siestoitta
comitative		—	siestoineen

Possessive forms of siesta (type kala)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	siestani	siestamme
2nd person	siestasi	siestanne
3rd person	siestansa

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish siesta.

Noun

siesta f (invariable)

1. siesta, nap

Anagrams

• asseti, esista, estasi, issate

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Romansch

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish siesta.

Noun

siesta f (plural siestas)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) nap

Synonyms

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

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Spanish

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

Noun

siesta f (plural siestas)

1. siesta, nap

   Antonym: duermevela

Derived terms

• siestecita
• tomar una siesta

Related terms

• sexto

Descendants

• → Armenian: սիեստա (siesta)
• → 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
• → Turkish: siesta

References

1. Nicole Lewis (2022-08-09), “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