# sext
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sɛkst/
* Audio (US):(file)
* 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

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### 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.
** 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)
* (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

##### Synonyms

* sex-text

##### Derived terms

* sexter
* sextual
* sextually

##### 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: (Central, Balearic) [ˈsɛkst]
* IPA: (Valencia) [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, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## 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: /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.