mesto
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Italian mesto and used as a tempo mark.
Adjective
[edit]mesto (not comparable)
Adverb
[edit]mesto (not comparable)
Anagrams
[edit]Galician
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]13th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese mesto, from Latin mixtus (“mixed”). Doublet of misto. Cognate with Portuguese misto, Spanish misto.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]mesto (feminine mesta, masculine plural mestos, feminine plural mestas)
- mixed
- dense, thick, packed
- Millo mesto vai no cesto, millo raro vai no carro
- Corn too densely sown produces less than when allowed more space
- (literally, “Packed corn goes in the basket, scarce corn goes in the cart”)
- c1350, Kelvin M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto Padre Sarmiento, page 96:
- cõmo quer que ja quanto lle daua hũa pouca de fealdade as sobrõçellas que avia mestas et juntas.
- as the only thing that was a little ugly about her were her eyebrows, which were thick and united
- Antonym: raro
References
[edit]- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “mesto”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “mesto”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “mesto”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “mesto”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “mesto”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
- ^ Pensado, José Luis, Messner, Dieter (2003) “mesto”, in Bachiller Olea: Vocabulos gallegos escuros: lo que quieren decir (Cadernos de Lingua: anexos; 7)[1], A Coruña: Real Academia Galega / Galaxia, →ISBN.
Ingrian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Russian вместо (vmesto).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Ala-Laukaa) IPA(key): /ˈmesto/, [ˈme̞s̠tŏ̞̥]
- (Soikkola) IPA(key): /ˈmesto/, [ˈme̞ʃto̞]
- Rhymes: -esto
- Hyphenation: mes‧to
Preposition
[edit]mesto (+ partitive)
- instead of
- 1937, N. A. Iljin, Lukukirja: Inkeroisia alkușkouluja vart (kolmas osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 17:
- Kuhu puuttui konna-reisumees mesto lounatta?
- Where did the travelling frog arrive instead of the south?
References
[edit]- Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 306
Italian
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]mesto (feminine mesta, masculine plural mesti, feminine plural meste, superlative mestissimo)
Related terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]mesto
References
[edit]- ^ mesto in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Serbo-Croatian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Slavic *město.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mȅsto n (Cyrillic spelling ме̏сто)
- place (location, position)
- space
- a settlement (usually between a village and a town in size)
Declension
[edit]Declension of mesto
Derived terms
[edit]Preposition
[edit]mȅsto (Cyrillic spelling ме̏сто) (+ genitive case)
- instead of
- Synonym: ùmesto
Quotations
[edit]- For quotations using this term, see Citations:mesto.
Slovak
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Slavic *město.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mesto n
Declension
[edit]Declension of mesto
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “mesto”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024
Slovene
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Slavic *město.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mẹ́sto n
Inflection
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The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks. |
| Neuter, hard | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nom. sing. | mésto | ||
| gen. sing. | mésta | ||
| singular | dual | plural | |
| nominative (imenovȃlnik) |
mésto | mésti | mésta |
| genitive (rodȋlnik) |
mésta | mést | mést |
| dative (dajȃlnik) |
méstu | méstoma | méstom |
| accusative (tožȋlnik) |
mésto | mésti | mésta |
| locative (mẹ̑stnik) |
méstu | méstih | méstih |
| instrumental (orọ̑dnik) |
méstom | méstoma | mésti |
Further reading
[edit]- “mesto”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2024
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Latin mixtus. Doublet of mixto.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]mesto (feminine mesta, masculine plural mestos, feminine plural mestas)
Further reading
[edit]- “mesto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
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