sext

See also: sèxt

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛkst/

• Audio (US):

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• Homophone: sexed
• Rhymes: -ɛkst

Etymology 1

From Latin sexta (“sixth; sixth hour”). Doublet of siesta.

Noun

sext (plural sexts)

1. (historical) Noon, reckoned as the sixth hour of daylight.

   Synonyms: midday, noontide; see also Thesaurus:midday

2. (Roman Catholicism) The service appointed for this hour.
3. (music) A sixth: an interval of six diatonic degrees.
4. (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

noon — see noon

midday Christian service

• Catalan: sexta (ca) f
• Latin: sexta f
• Old English: middægsang

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Translations to be checked

• Russian: ^{(please verify)} девя́тый час (ru) m (devjátyj čas), час девя́тый m (čas devjátyj), слу́жба девятого часа f (slúžba devjatovo časa), вечерня (ru) f (večernja)

Etymology 2

Blend of sex +‎ text. As a verb, a back-formation from earlier sexting, formed from the noun.

Noun

sext (plural sexts)

1. An electronic message, especially one sent by cell phone, involving sexual language or images.
   • 2001 November 22, Baltimore Sun, page 37:

     Embarrassed by a ‘Sext’ Message

Verb

sext (third-person singular simple present sexts, present participle sexting, simple past and past participle sexted)

1. (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

   • 2009 March 1, Wendyl Nissen, “Sexts Suk... Go 4 a Real D8”, in New Zealand Herald, page 35:

     […] trying to get into the swing of things by texting my husband (I was a little tipsy, I will admit): "How do you sext someone?" hoping to engage in the latest trend. All I got was, "What!" in reply.

   • 2010 October 16, Victoria Gehman, “Sex Suspended, Celibacy Supreme”, in Albany Student Press:

     The next day, Greg sexted me a few pictures of his package.

   • 2013, Olukemi Lawani, First Steps to Flight, page 3:

     We would talk on the phone for hours and then text and sext the rest of the day.

   • 2022, “Billions”, performed by Caroline Polachek:

     Sexting sonnets / Under the tables

   • 2025 September 11, Amelia Gentleman, “Boom times and total burnout: three days at Europe’s biggest pornography conference”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     She describes her content as “Valentine’s Day style” and says that for people who have grown up sexting friends, posting bikini shots of themselves on Instagram and becoming influencers, OnlyFans can feel like a “natural progression”.

Synonyms

• sex-text

Derived terms

• sextee
• sexter
• sextual
• sextually

Translations

to send a sext

• French: sexter (fr)
• Spanish: sextear

References

• "sext, n.¹", "n.²", "v.", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Anagrams

• TXes

Catalan

Catalan numbers ^(edit)

	60[a], [b]
[a], [b], [c] ←  5	6	7  → [a], [b], [c]
Cardinal: sis     Ordinal (Latinate): sext     Ordinal (Central): sisè     Ordinal (Valencian): sisé     Ordinal abbreviation (Latinate): 6t     Ordinal abbreviation (Central): 6è     Ordinal abbreviation (Valencian): 6é     Multiplier: sèxtuple
Catalan Wikipedia article on 6

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sextus (“sixth”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈsɛkst]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈsekst]

Adjective

sext (feminine sexta, masculine plural sexts or sextos, feminine plural sextes)

1. (ordinal number) sixth

   Synonym: sisè

Noun

sext m (plural sexts or sextos)

1. (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

1. alternative form of sixte

Noun

sext

1. alternative form of sixte

Pennsylvania German

Pennsylvania German ordinal numbers

<  5	6	7  >
Cardinal : sex     Ordinal : sext

Etymology

Compare German sechste, Dutch zesde, English sixth.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛk͡st/

Adjective

sext

1. sixth

Numeral

sext

1. sixth

Scots

Adjective

sext

1. 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.