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mesto

See also: město and mestò

English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Italian mesto and used as a tempo mark.

Adjective

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mesto (not comparable)

  1. (music) sad, mournful

Adverb

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mesto (not comparable)

  1. (music) mournfully

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Galician

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Etymology

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13th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese mesto, from Latin mixtus (“mixed”). Doublet of misto. Cognate with Portuguese misto, Spanish misto.[1]

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Adjective

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mesto (feminine mesta, masculine plural mestos, feminine plural mestas)

  1. 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
  2. mixed

References

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  • Ernesto 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: ILG
  • Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “mesto”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
  • “mesto” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “mesto” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “mesto” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  1. ^ 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

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Russian вместо (vmesto).

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Preposition

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mesto (+ partitive)

  1. 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?

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  • Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 306

Italian

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Etymology 1

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From Latin maestus.

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mesto (feminine mesta, masculine plural mesti, feminine plural meste, superlative mestissimo)

  1. sad
    Synonym: triste
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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Verb

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mesto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of mestare

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  1. ^ mesto in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Serbo-Croatian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *město.

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  • IPA(key): /mêsto/
  • Hyphenation: me‧sto

Noun

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mȅsto n (Cyrillic spelling ме̏сто)

  1. place (location, position)
  2. space
  3. a settlement (usually between a village and a town in size)

Declension

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Declension of mesto
singular plural
nominative mesto mesta
genitive mesta mȇstā
dative mestu mestima
accusative mesto mesta
vocative mesto mesta
locative mestu mestima
instrumental mestom mestima

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Preposition

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mȅsto (Cyrillic spelling ме̏сто) (+ genitive case)

  1. instead of
    Synonym: ùmesto

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Slovak

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *město.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈme̞s.to̞/
  • Hyphenation: mes‧to

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mesto n (genitive singular mesta, nominative plural mestá, genitive plural miest, declension pattern of mesto)

  1. city
  2. town

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Declension of mesto
singular plural
nominative mesto mestá
genitive mesta miest
dative mestu mestám
accusative mesto mestá
locative meste mestách
instrumental mestom mestami

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Further reading

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  • “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, 2024

Slovene

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Etymology

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From Proto-Slavic *město.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /mèːstɔ/
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Noun

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mẹ́sto n

  1. place, location
  2. town (settlement)

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

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  • “mesto”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Spanish

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin mixtus. Doublet of mixto.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmesto/ [ˈmes.t̪o]
  • Rhymes: -esto
  • Syllabification: mes‧to

Adjective

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mesto (feminine mesta, masculine plural mestos, feminine plural mestas)

  1. mixed
    Synonyms: mezclado, mixto

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