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/ [mes.t̪uˈɾaɾ]
• 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], 10 December 2024