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Galician
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Uncertain. Compare Spanish chisme.
Noun
chisme m (plural chismes)
- gossip
- a worthless object, thingy
- Synonym: cachivalho
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
chisme
- inflection of chismar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “chisme” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
Portuguese
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Uncertain, perhaps equivalent to etymology 2. Compare Spanish chisme.
Noun
chisme m (plural chismes) (Portugal, colloquial)
- gossip (idle talk)
- Synonyms: bisbilhotice, mexerico, fuxico, (Brazil) fofoca
Etymology 2
From Latin cīmicem.
Noun
chisme m (plural chismes) (Trás-os-Montes)
- bedbug
- Synonym: percevejo
Further reading
- “chisme”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
- “chisme”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2024
- “chisme”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- “chisme”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “chisme”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Spanish
Etymology 1
Uncertain. A connection to cisma (“schism; discord”) has been proposed on the grounds that rumours can cause strife. Coromines considers it more likely to be a further evolution of etymology 2 below.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃisme/
- Rhymes: -isme
- Syllabification: chis‧me
Noun
chisme m (plural chismes)
- gossip
- Synonyms: (Chile) cahuín, (Chile) copucha, cotilleo, pelambre, (El Salvador) chambre
- revista de chismes ― gossip magazine
- ¡Eso no son más que chismes! ― That's just gossip!
2019, Pedro Almodóvar, Dolor y gloria (motion picture), spoken by Salvador Mallo (Antonio Banderas):Alberto, los chismes envejecen, como una persona.- Alberto, gossip ages, like people.
- trinket, gadget
- (colloquial) thingy (something whose name one cannot recall)
Synonyms
Derived terms
Descendants
Etymology 2
From Old Spanish çisme f, from Latin cīmicem m. Initial consonant altered presumably by association with the synonymous doublet chinche.
Noun
chisme f (plural chismes) (obsolete)
- bedbug
References
Further reading