mesto

See also: město and mestò

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian mesto and used as a tempo mark

Adjective

mesto (not comparable)

1. (music) sad, mournful

Adverb

mesto (not comparable)

1. (music) mournfully

Anagrams

• -stome, Motes, Tomes, moste, motes, o-stem, smote, tomes

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Galician

Etymology

13th century. From Old Galician and Old Portuguese mesto, from Latin mixtus (“mixed”). Cognate with Portuguese misto, Spanish misto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmesto̝/

Adjective

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

1. dense, thick, packed
   • 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

2. mixed

References

• “mesto” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “mesto” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “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.

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Italian

Etymology 1

From Latin maestus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛs.to/
• Rhymes: -ɛsto

Adjective

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

1. sad

   Synonym: triste

Related terms

• mestamente
• mestizia

 

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmes.to/, /ˈmɛs.to/
• Rhymes: -esto, -ɛsto

Verb

mesto

1. first-person singular present indicative of mestare

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Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• mjȅsto (Ijekavian)
• mȉsto (Ikavian)

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *město.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

mȅsto n (Cyrillic spelling ме̏сто)

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

Declension

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

Derived terms

• mȅsnī
• mȅsno
• mestánce
• mestàrina
• mestášce
• mèstimicē
• mèstimičan
• mèstimično
• mȅstopīs
• mestòvina

 

Preposition

mȅsto (Cyrillic spelling ме̏сто) (+ genitive case)

1. instead of

   Synonym: ùmesto

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:mesto.

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Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *město.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

1. city
2. town

Declension

Declension of mesto

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

Derived terms

• hlavné mesto
• mestečko
• mestský
• mešťan
• veľkomesto

 

Further reading

• mesto in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

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Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *město.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mèːstɔ/

Noun

mẹ́sto n

1. place, location
2. town (settlement)

Inflection

Neuter, hard
nom. sing.	mésto
gen. sing.	mésta
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	mésto	mésti	mésta
accusative	mésto	mésti	mésta
genitive	mésta	mést	mést
dative	méstu	méstoma	méstom
locative	méstu	méstih	méstih
instrumental	méstom	méstoma	mésti

Further reading

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

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin mixtus. Doublet of mixto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmesto/, [ˈmes.t̪o]

Adjective

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

1. mixed

   Synonyms: mezclado, mixto

Further reading

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