chisme

Galician

Etymology 1

Uncertain. Compare Spanish chisme.

Noun

chisme m (plural chismes)

1. gossip
2. a worthless object, thingy

   Synonym: cachivalho

Derived terms

• chismada
• chismão
• chismar
• chismeiro

 

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

chisme

1. inflection of chismar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

“chisme” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʃiz.mi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʃiz.mi/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈʃiʒ.mi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʃiz.me/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʃiʒ.mɨ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʃiʒ.mɨ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃiʒ.mɨ/

• Hyphenation: chis‧me

Etymology 1

Uncertain, perhaps equivalent to etymology 2. Compare Spanish chisme.

Noun

chisme m (plural chismes) (Portugal, colloquial)

1. gossip (idle talk)

   Synonyms: bisbilhotice, mexerico, fuxico, (Brazil) fofoca

Etymology 2

From Latin cīmicem.

Noun

chisme m (plural chismes) (Trás-os-Montes)

1. bedbug

   Synonym: percevejo

Further reading

• “chisme” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “chisme” in Dicionário inFormal.
• “chisme” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
• “chisme” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
• “chisme” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Spanish

Etymology 1

Uncertain. A connection to cisma (“schism; discord”) has been proposed on the grounds that rumours can cause strife. Coromines considers it more likely to be a further evolution of etymology 2 below.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃisme/ [ˈt͡ʃiz.me]
• Rhymes: -isme
• Syllabification: chis‧me

Noun

chisme m (plural chismes)

1. gossip

   Synonyms: (Chile) cahuín, (Chile) copucha, cotilleo, pelambre, (El Salvador) chambre

   revista de chismes ― gossip magazine

   ¡Eso no son más que chismes! ― That's just gossip!

   • 2019, Pedro Almodóvar, Dolor y gloria (motion picture), spoken by Salvador Mallo (Antonio Banderas):

     Alberto, los chismes envejecen, como una persona.

     Alberto, gossip ages, like people.

2. trinket, gadget
3. (colloquial) thingy (something whose name one cannot recall)

Derived terms

• chismear
• chismorrear
• chismorreo
• chismoso

 

Etymology 2

From Old Spanish çisme f, from Latin cīmicem m. Initial consonant altered presumably by association with the synonymous doublet chinche.

Noun

chisme f (plural chismes) (obsolete)

1. bedbug
   • 1507, Antonio de Nebrija, Vocabularius:

     Cimex,icis por la chisme o chinche

     [The Latin word] cīmex, -icis means 'bedbug'

References

• Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “chisme”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 376

Further reading

• “chisme”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014