mesto
English
Galician
Etymology
13th century. From Old Galician and Old Portuguese mesto, from Latin mixtus (“mixed”). Cognate with Portuguese misto, Spanish misto.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmesto̝/
Adjective
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
References
- “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.
Italian
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɛsto
Related terms
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *město.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mêsto/
- Hyphenation: me‧sto
Noun
mȅsto n (Cyrillic spelling ме̏сто)
- place (location, position)
- space
- a settlement (usually between a village and a town in size)
Declension
Derived terms
Quotations
- For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:mesto.
Slovak
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *město.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈme̞s.to̞/
- Hyphenation: mes‧to
Noun
mesto n (genitive singular mesta, nominative plural mestá, genitive plural miest, declension pattern of mesto)
Declension
Derived terms
- hlavné mesto
- mestečko
- mestský
- mešťan
- veľkomesto
Slovene
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *město.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmèːstɔ/
- Tonal orthography: mẹ́sto
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmesto/, [ˈmest̪o]
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