sestear
Portuguese
Etymology
Either borrowed from Spanish sestear or from sesta + -ear.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ses.teˈa(ʁ)/ [ses.teˈa(h)]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /ses.teˈa(ɾ)/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /seʃ.teˈa(ʁ)/ [seʃ.teˈa(χ)]
- (Caipira) IPA(key): /ses.teˈa(ɻ)/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /sɨʃˈtjaɾ/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /sɨʃˈtja.ɾi/
- Hyphenation: ses‧te‧ar
Verb
sestear (first-person singular present sesteio, first-person singular preterite sesteei, past participle sesteado)
- (colloquial, Rio Grande do Sul) to nap
Conjugation
Conjugation of sestear (e becomes ei when stressed) (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Further reading
- “sestear”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “sestear”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sesteˈaɾ/ [ses.t̪eˈaɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: ses‧te‧ar
Verb
sestear (first-person singular present sesteo, first-person singular preterite sesteé, past participle sesteado)
- (intransitive) to nap, to have a siesta
- 2016 October 30, “Napflix, la plataforma de vídeos que te hará roncar en la siesta”, in El Periódico[1]:
- La "exitosa web española" -titular de la BBC- con 'youtubes' para sestear surgió de la cabeza de dos jóvenes publicistas, Víctor de Tena y Franc Bonet, devotos de echar una cabezadita siempre que se puede y defensores de la idea de que esta costumbre tan mediterránea debería "implementarse hasta en el trabajo".
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Conjugation
Conjugation of sestear (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “sestear”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025