mesto

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian mesto and used as a tempo mark

Adjective

mesto (not comparable)

1. (music) sad, mournful

Adverb

mesto (not comparable)

1. (music) mournfully

Anagrams

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

Etymology

13th century. From Old Galician and Old Portuguese mesto, from Latin mixtus (“mixed”). Cognate with Portuguese misto, Spanish misto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmesto̝/

Adjective

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

1. dense, thick, packed
   • 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

2. mixed

References

• “mesto” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “mesto” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “mesto” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “mesto” in Santamarina, Antón (coord.): Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
• “mesto” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Etymology

From Latin maestus.

Adjective

mesto (feminine singular mesta, masculine plural mesti, feminine plural meste)

1. sad

Verb

mesto

1. first-person singular present indicative of mestare

Alternative forms

• (Ijekavian): mjȅsto
• (Ikavian): mȉsto

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *město.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

mȅsto n (Cyrillic spelling ме̏сто)

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

Preposition

mȅsto (Cyrillic spelling ме̏сто) (+ genitive case)

1. instead of

Quotations

• For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:mesto.

Etymology

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)

1. city
2. town

Further reading

• mesto in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *město.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmèːstɔ/
• Tonal orthography: mẹ́sto

Noun

mésto n (genitive mésta, nominative plural mésta)

1. place, location
2. town (settlement)