sext

== English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /sɛkst/ Homophone: sexed Rhymes: -ɛkst === Etymology 1 === From Latin sexta (“sixth; sixth hour”). Doublet of siesta. ==== 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 ===== === 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. ==== 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 ===== Synonyms ===== sex-text ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== === References === "sext, n.¹", "n.²", "v.", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press. === Anagrams === TXes == Catalan == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin sextus (“sixth”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): (Northern) [ˈse̞kst] IPA(key): (Balearic, Central) [ˈsɛkst] IPA(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈsekst] === Adjective === sext (feminine sexta, masculine plural sexts or sextos, feminine plural sextes) (ordinal number) sixth Synonym: sisè === Noun === sext m (plural sexts or sextos) (fractional number) sixth === Further reading === “sext”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007 == Middle English == === Adjective === sext alternative form of sixte === Noun === sext alternative form of sixte == Pennsylvania German == === Etymology === Compare German sechste, Dutch zesde, English sixth. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /sɛk͡st/ === Adjective === sext sixth === Numeral === sext sixth == Scots == === Adjective === sext alternative form of saxt === References === “sext” under “six, num. adj.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 23 May 2024, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.