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Siesta

//siˈɛstə// noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    A nap, especially an afternoon one taken during the hottest part of the day in some cultures. countable

    "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. 2
    a nap in the early afternoon (especially in hot countries) wordnet
  3. 3
    Laid-back attitudes to work or laziness, especially by a Hispanic person. attributive, offensive, sometimes

    "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."

Verb
  1. 1
    to take a siesta; to nap. intransitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

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