sext

Pronunciation: /sɛkst/

The English word “sext” has 6 meanings listed here.

noun

Noon, reckoned as the sixth hour of daylight.
The service appointed for this hour.
A sixth: an interval of six diatonic degrees.
An organ stop of two ranks of pipes an interval of a sixth apart.
An electronic message, especially one sent by cell phone, involving sexual language or images.

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

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