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-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)
- 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
- cõmo quer que ja quanto lle daua hũa pouca de fealdade as sobrõçellas que avia mestas et juntas.
- Antonym: raro
- 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.
- ^ 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
- (Ala-Laukaa) IPA(key): /ˈmesto/, [ˈme̞s̠tŏ̞̥]
- (Soikkola) IPA(key): /ˈmesto/, [ˈme̞ʃto̞]
- Rhymes: -esto
- Hyphenation: mes‧to
PrepositionEdit
mesto (+ partitive)
- 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
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
mesto (feminine mesta, masculine plural mesti, feminine plural meste, superlative mestissimo)
Related termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
mesto
ReferencesEdit
- ^ mesto in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
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
Derived termsEdit
PrepositionEdit
mȅsto (Cyrillic spelling ме̏сто) (+ genitive case)
- instead of
- Synonym: ùmesto
QuotationsEdit
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:mesto.
SlovakEdit
EtymologyEdit
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *město.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
mesto n (genitive singular mesta, nominative plural mestá, genitive plural miest, declension pattern of mesto)
DeclensionEdit
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- mesto in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk
SloveneEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Slavic *město.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
mẹ́sto n
InflectionEdit
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 readingEdit
- “mesto”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
SpanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Inherited from Latin mixtus. Doublet of mixto.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
mesto (feminine mesta, masculine plural mestos, feminine plural mestas)
Further readingEdit
- “mesto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014