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): /ˈmesto/ [ˈmes̺.t̪ʊ]
• Rhymes: -esto
• Hyphenation: mes‧to

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

1. mixed
2. 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

• 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: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• 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

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): /ˈmɛs.to/
• 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): /ˈmes.to/, /ˈmɛs.to/^[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) [with genitive]

1. instead of

   Synonym: ùmesto

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

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *město.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmestɔ]

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: mes‧to

mesto n (relational adjective mestský, diminutive mestečko)

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, 2003–2025

From Proto-Slavic *město.

• IPA^(key): /mèːstɔ/

• Audio:

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mẹ́sto n

1. place, location
2. town (settlement)

• “mesto”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024