# sexa
## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈsɛk.sə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈsɛk.sa]

### Verb

sexa
* inflection of sexar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sɛk.sa/
* Homophones: sexas, sexât

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

sexa m or f by sense (plural sexas)
* Clipping of sexagénaire.

##### Coordinate terms

* quinqua

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

sexa
* third-person singular past historic of sexer

## Galician
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈseʃɐ/

### Verb

sexa
* inflection of ser:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “ser”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “ser”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

## Icelandic
### Etymology

From sex (“six”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsɛxsa/, /ˈsɛksa/

### Noun

sexa f (genitive singular sexu, nominative plural sexur)
* six (playing card)

#### Declension
## Ligurian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈseʒa/

### Noun

sexa
* Alternative form of çêxa (“cherry”)

## Portuguese
### Verb

sexa
* inflection of sexar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Spanish
### Verb

sexa
* inflection of sexar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Swedish
### Etymology 1

From the number sex (“six”).

#### Noun

sexa c
* Number six.
* A child in the sixth grade; someone who is in the sixth year of school.
* (uncountable, mainly used in the definite) the sixth year in school.
    De barnen går i sexan.Those children are in sixth grade.
* A drink containing six centiliters of liquor.
* A person, or a team, with result as number six in a sports competition or, eventually, any other type of competition.
    komma sexa
       get on the sixth place, end as number six
* (dated) a light, festive (six o'clock) evening meal (with alcohol)

##### Declension

| | | nominative | genitive |
| singular | indefinite | sexa | sexas |
| singular | definite | sexan | sexans |
| plural | indefinite | sexor | sexors |
| plural | definite | sexorna | sexornas |

##### Derived terms

* huggsexa
* nattsexa
* sillsexa
* svensexa
(six o'clock festivity):
* nattsexa (“nightly light meal [after party]”)
* sillsexa (“[festive] light herring meal”)
* sexbord (“dinner table [for festivities]”)
* sexdags (“[appointed] time for festivities”)
* sexliv (“life charactherised by sexa”)
* sexmästare (“host”)
* sexmästarinna (“hostess”)
* sextid (“[appointed] time for festivities”)

##### Related terms

* sjätte
* sjättedel

##### See also

* nolla, etta, tvåa, trea, fyra, femma, sexa, sjua, åtta, nia, tia, elva, tolva

### Etymology 2

From sex (“sex”) +‎ -a.

#### Verb

sexa (present sexar, preterite sexade, supine sexat, imperative sexa)
* (colloquial) to have sexual intercourse