mesturar

13th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese mesturar, from a Late Latin mixturo, mixturare, from Latin mixtūra, participle of misceō (“to mix”), from Proto-Indo-European *meiǵ-, *meiḱ- (“to mix”). Cognate with Portuguese misturar.

• IPA^(key): /mestuˈɾaɾ/

mesturar (first-person singular present mesturo, first-person singular preterite mesturei, past participle mesturado)

1. (transitive) to mix, to stir

   Synonyms: anazar, remexer

   • 1409, José Luis Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 117:

     Para esto val a ferruien mesturada con sal et con azeyte.

     For this is useful the iron rust mixed with salt and olive oil

2. (transitive) to admix, mix
   • 1439, Antonio García y Garcia, editor, Synodicon hispanum I. Galicia, Madrid: Editorial Católica, page 330:

     dos que mesturan agoa ao vinno que bendem despois que o demostran puro para vender [...] dos que mesturan con a prata ou con ouro outro metal e a vendem por fina

     about the people that admixes water to the wine that they sell, announcing it as pure about the people that admixes with silver or gold another metal, and then they sell it as fine

3. (pronominal) to mingle; to socialise

• mestura

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “mesturar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “mestur”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “mesturar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “mesturar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “mesturar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “mesturar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• IPA^(key): /mestuˈɾaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: mes‧tu‧rar

mesturar (first-person singular present mesturo, first-person singular preterite mesturé, past participle mesturado)

1. (archaic) to mix

• “mesturar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10