xesta

From Old Galician-Portuguese gẽesta, from Latin genesta (“broom”). Cognate with Portuguese gesta and Spanish hiniesta.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃɛsta̝/

xesta f (plural xestas)

1. broom (Cytisus scoparius)
   • 1408, José Luis Novo Cazón, editor, El priorato santiaguista de Vilar de Donas en la Edad Media (1194-1500), A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 318:

     que façades a dicta metade da dicta casa de pedra e de madeyra e de giestas e de colmo

     you should build that half house with stone and wood and brooms and thatch

2. broom (tool)

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “giest”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “geest”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “xesta”, 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), “xesta”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “xesta”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN