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siesta
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish siesta.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /si??st?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /si??st?/
- Rhymes: -?st?
Noun
siesta (plural siestas)
- A nap, especially an afternoon one taken after lunch in some cultures.
- 1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan
- 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 […]
- 1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan
Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:shut-eye
Translations
Verb
siesta (third-person singular simple present siestas, present participle siestaing, simple past and past participle siestaed)
- (intransitive) to take a siesta; to nap.
Synonyms
- siest
Anagrams
- Tassie, staies, tassie
Finnish
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish siesta.
Noun
siesta
- siesta
Declension
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish siesta.
Noun
siesta f (invariable)
- siesta, nap
Anagrams
- asseti, esista, estasi, issate
Romansch
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish siesta.
Noun
siesta f (plural siestas)
- (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
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin sexta (hora) (“sixth hour, noon”), feminine of sextus (“sixth”). Cognate with Portuguese sesta.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sjesta/, [?sjes.t?a]
Noun
siesta f (plural siestas)
- siesta, nap
- Antonym: duermevela
Derived terms
- siestecita
- tomar una siesta
Related terms
- sexto
Descendants
- ? Armenian: ?????? (siesta)
- ? English: siesta
- ? Finnish: siesta
- ? French: sieste
- ? German: Siesta
- ? Greek: ?????? (siésta)
- ? Hungarian: szieszta
- ? Italian: siesta
- ? Japanese: ???? (shiesuta)
- ? Norwegian: siesta
- ? Romansch: siesta
- ? Russian: ??????? (sijésta)
- ? Swedish: siesta
Further reading
- “siesta” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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swear
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /sw??/
- (General American) IPA(key): /sw??/
- Rhymes: -??(?)
Etymology 1
From Middle English sweren, swerien, from Old English swerian (“to swear, take an oath of office”), from Proto-West Germanic *swarjan, from Proto-Germanic *swarjan? (“to speak, swear”), from Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“to swear”).
Cognate with West Frisian swarre (“to swear”), Saterland Frisian swera (“to swear”), Dutch zweren (“to swear, vow”), Low German swören (“to swear”), sweren, German schwören (“to swear”), Danish sværge, Swedish svära (“to swear”), Icelandic sverja (“to swear”), Russian ????? (svara, “quarrel”). Also cognate to Albanian var (“to hang, consider, to depend from”) through Proto-Indo-European.
The original sense in all Germanic languages is “to take an oath”. The sense “to use bad language” developed in Middle English and is based on the Christian prohibition against swearing in general (cf. Matthew 5:33-37) and invoking God’s name in particular (i.e. frequent swearing was considered similar to the use of obscene words).
Verb
swear (third-person singular simple present swears, present participle swearing, simple past swore or (archaic) sware, past participle sworn or yswore)
- (transitive, intransitive) To take an oath, to promise.
- The Bat—they called him the Bat. […]. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.
- (transitive, intransitive) To use offensive, profane, or obscene language.
Usage notes
- In sense 1, this is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:swear word
- See also Thesaurus:swear
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From the above verb, or from Middle English sware, from Old English swaru, from Proto-Germanic *swar?.
Noun
swear (plural swears)
- A swear word.
- 1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Beach of Falesá
- You might think it funny to hear this Kanaka girl come out with a big swear. No such thing. There was no swearing in her — no, nor anger; she was beyond anger, and meant the word simple and serious.
- 1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Beach of Falesá
Etymology 3
From Middle English swere, swer, swar, from Old English sw?r, sw?r (“heavy, heavy as a burden, of great weight, oppressive, grievous, painful, unpleasant, sad, feeling or expressing grief, grave, slow, dull, sluggish, slothful, indolent, inactive from weakness, enfeebled, weak”), from Proto-West Germanic *sw?r, from Proto-Germanic *sw?raz (“heavy”), from Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“heavy”).
Cognate with West Frisian swier (“heavy”), Dutch zwaar (“heavy, hard, difficult”), German schwer (“heavy, hard, difficult”), Swedish svår (“heavy, hard, severe”), Latin s?rius (“earnest, grave, solemn, serious”) and Albanian varrë (“wound, plague”).
Alternative forms
- sweer, sweir, swere
Adjective
swear (comparative swearer or more swear, superlative swearest or most swear)
- (Britain dialectal) Heavy.
- (Britain dialectal) Top-heavy; too high.
- (Britain dialectal) Dull; heavy; lazy; slow; reluctant; unwilling.
- (Britain dialectal) Niggardly.
- (Britain dialectal) A lazy time; a short rest during working hours (especially field labour); a siesta.
Derived terms
Verb
swear (third-person singular simple present swears, present participle swearing, simple past and past participle sweared)
- (Britain dialectal) To be lazy; rest for a short while during working hours.
References
- swear at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- resaw, sawer, sware, wares, wears
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