mesto
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Italian mesto and used as a tempo mark
AdjectiveEdit
mesto (not comparable)
AdverbEdit
mesto (not comparable)
AnagramsEdit
GalicianEdit
EtymologyEdit
13th century. From Old Galician and Old Portuguese mesto, from Latin mixtus (“mixed”). Cognate with Portuguese misto, Spanish misto.[1]
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
mesto m (feminine singular mesta, masculine plural mestos, feminine plural mestas)
- 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
- cõmo quer que ja quanto lle daua hũa pouca de fealdade as sobrõçellas que avia mestas et juntas.
- c1350, Kelvin M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto Padre Sarmiento, page 96:
- mixed
ReferencesEdit
- “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.
- ^ Pensado, José Luis; Messner, Dieter (2003), “mesto”, in Bachiller Olea: Vocabulos gallegos escuros: lo que quieren decir (Cadernos de Lingua: anexos; 7), A Coruña: Real Academia Galega / Galaxia, →ISBN.
ItalianEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
- Rhymes: -ɛsto
AdjectiveEdit
mesto (feminine singular mesta, masculine plural mesti, feminine plural meste)
Related termsEdit
VerbEdit
mesto
Serbo-CroatianEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Slavic *město.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
mȅsto n (Cyrillic spelling ме̏сто)
- place (location, position)
- space
- a settlement (usually between a village and a town in size)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of mesto
Derived termsEdit
PrepositionEdit
mȅsto (Cyrillic spelling ме̏сто) (+ genitive case)
- instead of
- Synonym: ùmesto
QuotationsEdit
- For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:mesto.
SlovakEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Slavic *město.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
mesto n (genitive singular mesta, nominative plural mestá, genitive plural miest, declension pattern of mesto)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of mesto
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- mesto in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk
SloveneEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Slavic *město.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
mẹ́sto n
InflectionEdit
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 |