Galician edit

Etymology edit

13th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese mecer, mexer, from Latin miscēre (to mix). Cognate with Portuguese mexer and Spanish mecer.

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mexer (first-person singular present mexo, first-person singular preterite mexín, past participle mexido)
mexer (first-person singular present mexo, first-person singular preterite mexim or mexi, past participle mexido, reintegrationist norm)

  1. (intransitive, dated) to mix together; to intermingle
    Synonym: mesturar
    • 1282, M. Lucas Álvarez, P. Lucas Domínguez, editors, El monasterio de San Clodio do Ribeiro en la Edad Media: estudio y documentos, Sada / A Coruña: Edicións do Castro, page 390:
      vendo essa mia herdade que iaz a su a uossa granja de Penellas, untre anballas aguas dos regueyrus que per y corren d'ona parte et da outra, et uay firir áás mestas u se anbus estes regeyrus mexen
      I sell my property that is next to your farm of Penelas, in between both waters of the streams that flow there, and its perimeter comes to the confluence where both this streams mix together
  2. (transitive) to stir; to move
    Synonyms: anazar, remexer, revolver
  3. (intransitive, figurative) to investigate; to snoop
    Synonym: remexer

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References edit

  • mecer” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • mexen” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • mexer” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • mexer” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • mexer” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Portuguese edit

Etymology edit

From Old Galician-Portuguese mecer, from Latin miscēre (to mix). Compare Spanish mecer.

Pronunciation edit

 
 

  • Hyphenation: me‧xer

Verb edit

mexer (first-person singular present mexo, first-person singular preterite mexi, past participle mexido)

  1. (transitive) to move, to mess with, to put your hands on
    Não mexas nas minhas coisas.Don't move my stuff.
    Esse filme mexeu comigo.That movie moved me.
    Para de te mexer!Stop moving! (Stand still!)
  2. (transitive) to fiddle with
    Estava mexendo no meu celular.
    I was fiddling with my cellphone.
  3. (reflexive) to move it; to hurry up

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