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語源

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

発音

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /siˈɛstə/
• 韻: -ɛstə

名詞

siesta (plural siestas)

1. (countable) A nap, especially an afternoon one taken during the hottest part of the day in some cultures.
   • 1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC:

     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 […]

   • 1986, “La Isla Bonita”, in True Blue, performed by Madonna:

     When it's time for siesta, you can watch them go by / Beautiful faces, no cares in this world

2. (attributive, sometimes offensive) Laid-back attitudes to work or laziness, especially by a Hispanic person.
   • 2001 February 1, Stanley E. Porter, Michael A. Hayes, David Tombs, Faith in the Millennium, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 21:

     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.

   • 2010 February 22, Hughes Oliphant Old, The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church, Vol. 7: Our Own Time, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, →ISBN, page 238:

     I had eaten a simple lunch, and in the relaxed siesta attitude that pervaded the place I settled back in my chair and looked at the mountains behind in all their austerity.

   • 2021 April 14, Michael J. Strada, Through the Global Lens: An Introduction to Social Sciences, Routledge, →ISBN:

     Many observers believe the subtropical environment contributes to a slow-paced, siesta culture in which nothing work-related is so important that it cannot wait until tomorrow.

同意語

• See Thesaurus:shut-eye
• (Laid-back attitude): mañana

動詞

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

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

   Synonym: siest

アナグラム

• staies, tassie, Tassie, tesias