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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian mesto and used as a tempo mark.
Adjective
mesto (not comparable)
- (music) sad, mournful
Adverb
mesto (not comparable)
- (music) mournfully
Anagrams
Galician
Etymology
13th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese mesto, from Latin mixtus (“mixed”). Doublet of misto. Cognate with Portuguese misto, Spanish misto.[1]
Pronunciation
Adjective
mesto (feminine mesta, masculine plural mestos, feminine plural mestas)
- mixed
- 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
References
- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “mesto”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “mesto”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “mesto”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “mesto”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “mesto”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
- ^ 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.
Ingrian
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian вместо (vmesto).
Pronunciation
Preposition
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?
References
- Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 306
Italian
Etymology 1
From Latin maestus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
mesto (feminine mesta, masculine plural mesti, feminine plural meste, superlative mestissimo)
- sad
- Synonym: triste
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
Verb
mesto
- first-person singular present indicative of mestare
References
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Inherited 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
Preposition
mȅsto (Cyrillic spelling ме̏сто) (+ genitive case)
- instead of
- Synonym: ùmesto
Quotations
Slovak
Etymology
Inherited 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)
- city
- town
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
- “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
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *město.
Pronunciation
Noun
mẹ́sto n
- place, location
- town (settlement)
Inflection
Further reading
- “mesto”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Latin mixtus. Doublet of mixto.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmesto/
- Rhymes: -esto
- Syllabification: mes‧to
Adjective
mesto (feminine mesta, masculine plural mestos, feminine plural mestas)
- mixed
- Synonyms: mezclado, mixto
Further reading