siesta

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a rest or nap taken in the early afternoon, especially in a hot climate

   The pond seemed to take a brief siesta during the stillest part of the afternoon.

Borrowed from Spanish siesta, 'afternoon rest,' from Latin sexta hora, 'the sixth hour' after dawn, approximately noon. The religious observance at that hour became associated in Spanish with the midday break and then with the customary afternoon nap.

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