misto

Borrowed from Spanish mixto.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈmis.tu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈmis.to]

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misto m (plural mistos)

1. match (device to make fire)

   Synonym: llumí

• misto garibaldi

• “misto”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “misto”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “misto” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “misto” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

misto

1. gato.

Attested since the 19th century. Ultimately from Latin mixtus. Doublet of mesto.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmistʊ]

misto m (plural mistos)

1. match (device to make fire)

   Synonym: fósforo

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “misto”, 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), “misto”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “misto”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Latin mixtus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmis.to/
• Rhymes: -isto
• Hyphenation: mì‧sto

misto (feminine mista, masculine plural misti, feminine plural miste)

1. mixed

• fritto misto
• mistamente

misto m (plural misti)

1. mixture
2. medley

• misto in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• misto in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
• misto in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
• misto in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• misto in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
• misto in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• Mosti, istmo, mosti, stimo, stimò, stomi

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmɪs.toː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmis.t̪o]

mistō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of mistus

Learned borrowing from Latin mixtus.

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -istu, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -iʃtu
• Hyphenation: mis‧to

misto (feminine mista, masculine plural mistos, feminine plural mistas)

1. mixed (having two or more separate aspects)
2. mixed (having different elements)

   Synonym: misturado

3. (specifically) mixed (including both males and females)

misto m (plural mistos)

1. jumble (a mixture of unrelated things)

   Synonyms: mistura, mistureba

2. (Brazil) ellipsis of misto-quente

• “misto”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “misto”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
• “misto” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “misto”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “misto”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

• mjȅsto (Ijekavian)
• mȅsto (Ekavian)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *město.

misto n (Cyrillic spelling мисто)

1. (Chakavian, Ikavian) place (location, position)
   • 1375, N.N., Muka svete Margarite (transcribed from Glagolitic original):

     Blažena se ti nazivaš
     s mistom u kôm' sad pribivaš.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1501, Marko Marulić, Judita:

     Svak skuta poduja, čtujući človika,
     tolik strah obuja mista svakolika.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1759, Antun Kanižlić, Sveta Rožalija:

     Kakvo to jest misto, znat morete lasno,
     gdi se s nogom isto tlači zlato jasno.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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• IPA^(key): /ˈmisto/ [ˈmis.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -isto
• Syllabification: mis‧to

misto (feminine mista, masculine plural mistos, feminine plural mistas)

1. obsolete spelling of mixto

misto m (plural mistos)

1. (Galicia, regional Spain) match (stick) (used regionally in provinces such as Galicia and Valencia)

   Synonyms: fósforo, cerilla, cerillo (Mexico), mixto (regional, Spain)

• “misto”, 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

Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl miztō(n). Cf. San Juan Colorado Mixtec mistú.

misto

1. cat (Felis silvestris catus)

   Synonyms: ñaña, quete cau

• Alvarado, Francisco de (1593) Vocabulario en lengua misteca (in Spanish), Mexico: En casa de Pedro Balli, page 115r