sext

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. (historical) Noon, reckoned as the sixth hour of daylight.
2. The service appointed for this hour.
3. A sixth: an interval of six diatonic degrees.
4. (obsolete) An organ stop of two ranks of pipes an interval of a sixth apart.

Verb

To send a sext.

Sinonieme

canonical hours

Vertalings

sexta

6th

sexte

sesta

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/sɛkst/

Etimologie (Engels)

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