sexta

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈsɛks.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈseks.ta]

Borrowed from Latin sexta, feminine singular of sextus.

sexta f (plural sextes)

1. (music) sixth
2. sext; a liturgical hour

• sexta major
• sexta menor

sexta

1. feminine singular of sext

See sextus. As a noun, by agreement with an implied hora (“hour”).

sexta f (genitive sextae); first declension

1. Noon, reckoned as the sixth hour of daylight.
2. (Roman Catholicism) Sext, the service appointed to this hour.

First-declension noun.

• English: sext
• Spanish: siesta

sexta

1. inflection of sextus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

sextā

1. ablative feminine singular of sextus

• sexta in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

From Proto-Germanic *sehstô (“sixth”).

sexta

1. sixth

• North Frisian:

  Föhr-Amrum: seekst

  Helgoland: sös

• Saterland Frisian: säkste
• West Frisian: sechste

• 6.ª (abbreviation)

• Homophone: cesta (Brazil)
• Hyphenation: sex‧ta

sexta

1. feminine singular of sexto

sexta f (plural sextas)

1. Ellipsis of sexta-feira (“Friday”).

sexta (not comparable)

1. Ellipsis of sexta-feira (“on Friday”).

sexta

1. inflection of sextar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

sexta f (plural sextas)

1. (music) sixth
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sexta

1. feminine singular of sexto

• “sexto”, 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