mesto

Borrowed from Italian mesto and used as a tempo mark.

mesto (not comparable)

1. (music) sad, mournful

mesto (not comparable)

1. (music) mournfully

• -stome, Motes, Tomes, moste, motes, o-stem, smote, tomes

• mecho

13th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese mesto, from Latin mixtus (“mixed”). Doublet of misto. Cognate with Portuguese misto, Spanish misto.[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈmestʊ]

mesto (feminine mesta, masculine plural mestos, feminine plural mestas)

1. 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

2. mixed

• “mesto” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “mesto” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “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.

Borrowed from Russian вместо (vmesto).

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈmesto/, [ˈme̞s̠tŏ̞̥]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈmesto/, [ˈme̞ʃto̞]
• Rhymes: -esto
• Hyphenation: mes‧to

mesto (+ partitive)

1. 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?

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 306

From Latin maestus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛ.sto/
• Rhymes: -ɛsto
• Hyphenation: mè‧sto

mesto (feminine mesta, masculine plural mesti, feminine plural meste, superlative mestissimo)

1. sad

   Synonym: triste

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈme.sto/, /ˈmɛ.sto/[1]
• Rhymes: -esto, -ɛsto
• Hyphenation: mé‧sto, mè‧sto

mesto

1. first-person singular present indicative of mestare

• mjȅsto (Ijekavian)
• mȉsto (Ikavian)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *město.

• IPA^(key): /mêsto/
• Hyphenation: me‧sto

mȅsto n (Cyrillic spelling ме̏сто)

1. place (location, position)
2. space
3. a settlement (usually between a village and a town in size)

mȅsto (Cyrillic spelling ме̏сто) (+ genitive case)

1. instead of

   Synonym: ùmesto

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:mesto.

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *město.

• IPA^(key): /ˈme̞s.to̞/
• Hyphenation: mes‧to

mesto n (genitive singular mesta, nominative plural mestá, genitive plural miest, declension pattern of mesto)

1. city
2. town

• “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

From Proto-Slavic *město.

• IPA^(key): /mèːstɔ/

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mẹ́sto n

1. place, location
2. town (settlement)

• “mesto”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Inherited from Latin mixtus. Doublet of mixto.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmesto/ [ˈmes.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -esto
• Syllabification: mes‧to

mesto (feminine mesta, masculine plural mestos, feminine plural mestas)

1. mixed

   Synonyms: mezclado, mixto

• “mesto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014