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mesto

See also: město and mestò

English edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Italian mesto and used as a tempo mark.

Adjective edit

mesto (not comparable)

  1. (music) sad, mournful

Adverb edit

mesto (not comparable)

  1. (music) mournfully

Anagrams edit

Galician edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

Adjective edit

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 edit

  • “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)‎[1], A Coruña: Real Academia Galega / Galaxia, →ISBN.

Ingrian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Russian вместо (vmesto).

Pronunciation edit

Preposition edit

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?

References edit

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

Italian edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Latin maestus.

Pronunciation edit

Adjective edit

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

  1. sad
    Synonym: triste
Related terms edit

Etymology 2 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

mesto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of mestare

References edit

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

Serbo-Croatian edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *město.

Pronunciation edit

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

Noun edit

mȅsto n (Cyrillic spelling ме̏сто)

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

Declension edit

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 edit

Preposition edit

mȅsto (Cyrillic spelling ме̏сто) (+ genitive case)

  1. instead of
    Synonym: ùmesto

Quotations edit

Slovak edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *město.

Pronunciation edit

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

Noun edit

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

  1. city
  2. town

Declension edit

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 edit

Further reading edit

  • “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 edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Slavic *město.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /mèːstɔ/
  • Audio(file)

Noun edit

mẹ́sto n

  1. place, location
  2. town (settlement)

Inflection edit

 
 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 edit

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

Spanish edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Latin mixtus. Doublet of mixto.

Pronunciation edit

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

Adjective edit

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

  1. mixed
    Synonyms: mezclado, mixto

Further reading edit

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