Wiktionary

mesto

See also: město and mestò

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Italian mesto and used as a tempo mark.

AdjectiveEdit

mesto (not comparable)

  1. (music) sad, mournful

AdverbEdit

mesto (not comparable)

  1. (music) mournfully

AnagramsEdit

GalicianEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

AdjectiveEdit

mesto m (feminine singular 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

ReferencesEdit

  • “mesto” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “mesto” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “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), A Coruña: Real Academia Galega / Galaxia, →ISBN.

IngrianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Russian вместо (vmesto).

PronunciationEdit

PrepositionEdit

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?

ReferencesEdit

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

ItalianEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Latin maestus.

PronunciationEdit

AdjectiveEdit

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

  1. sad
    Synonym: triste
Related termsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

mesto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of mestare

ReferencesEdit

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

Serbo-CroatianEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Slavic *město.

PronunciationEdit

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

NounEdit

mȅsto n (Cyrillic spelling ме̏сто)

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

DeclensionEdit

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 termsEdit

PrepositionEdit

mȅsto (Cyrillic spelling ме̏сто) (+ genitive case)

  1. instead of
    Synonym: ùmesto

QuotationsEdit

SlovakEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Slavic *město.

PronunciationEdit

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

NounEdit

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

  1. city
  2. town

DeclensionEdit

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

Derived termsEdit

Further readingEdit

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

SloveneEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Slavic *město.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

mẹ́sto n

  1. place, location
  2. town (settlement)

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

Further readingEdit

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

SpanishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin mixtus. Doublet of mixto.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈmesto/, [ˈmes.t̪o]

AdjectiveEdit

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

  1. mixed
    Synonyms: mezclado, mixto

Further readingEdit

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