mosto

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin mustum, neuter of mustus (“fresh, young", and, of wine, "unfermented”), from Proto-Indo-European *mus-, *mews- (“damp”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmosto/ [ˈmos̺.t̪ʊ]
• Rhymes: -osto
• Hyphenation: mos‧to

mosto (feminine mosta, masculine plural mostos, feminine plural mostas)

1. (archaic) unfermented or young
   • 1364, J. Méndez Pérez & al. (eds.), El monasterio de San Salvador de Chantada, Santiago de Compostela: I. Padre Sarmiento, page 377:

     dedesnos cada anno viinte quarteiros de vino mosto

     you shall give us each year twenty pints of young (or unfermented) wine

   Antonym: coito

mosto m (plural mostos)

1. must (fruit juice)

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “mosto”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “mosto”, 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), “mosto”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “mosto”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Latin mustum, neuter of mustus (“fresh, young", and, of wine, "unfermented”), from Proto-Indo-European *mus-, *mews- (“damp”). Cognate with Sicilian mustu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmos.to/
• Rhymes: -osto
• Hyphenation: mó‧sto

mosto m (plural mosti)

1. must (fruit juice)

• mostarda

• moscio
• mostoso

From Old Galician-Portuguese mosto, from Latin mustum, neuter of mustus (“fresh, young", and, of wine, "unfermented”), from Proto-Indo-European *mus-, *mews- (“damp”).

mosto m (plural mostos)

1. must (unfermented fruit juice)

Inherited from Old Spanish mosto, from Latin mustum, neuter of mustus (“fresh, young", and, of wine, "unfermented”), from Proto-Indo-European *mus-, *mews- (“damp”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmosto/ [ˈmos.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -osto
• Syllabification: mos‧to

mosto m (plural mostos)

1. must (fruit juice)
2. (brewing) wort

• “mosto”, 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