toste

From Old Galician-Portuguese toste (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Old French tost (“soon”) rather than from Italian tosto.

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɔstɪ]

toste

1. (archaic, literary) soon

   Synonyms: axiña, logo

2. (archaic, literary) hastily, rapidly, quickly

   Synonyms: lixeiro, rapidamente

   • 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 379:

     Mays Diomedes, que era moy bõo et moy lygeyro, ergeusse moy toste, cõ sua espada ẽna mão, et defendeusse moy ben

     But Diomedes, who was very good and very swift, got up very quickly, with sword in hand, and defended himself very well

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “toste”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “toste”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “toste”, 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), “toste”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

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toste

1. inflection of tosen:
   1. first/third-person singular preterite
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive II

toste

1. feminine plural of tosto

• setto, settò, testo, testò

toste

1. vocative masculine singular of tostus

From Old French toster.

toste

1. alternative form of tosten

From tosten.

toste

1. alternative form of tost

toste f pl

1. feminine plural of tuosto

From Italian tosto, from Latin tostus (“parched”), past participle of torreō (“I parch”).

toste

1. quickly; swiftly
   • a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 26 (facsimile):

     e logo chegar..a alma tomar demões q̇ a leuarõ. mui toſte ſẽ tardar

     and soon devils arrived, seizing the soul, and took it very quickly without delay

• Portuguese: toste

From Old Galician-Portuguese toste (“swiftly”), from Italian tosto, from Latin tostus (“parched”), past participle of torreō (“to parch”).

toste (comparable, comparative mais toste, superlative o mais toste)

1. quickly; swiftly

   Synonyms: aceleradamente, apressadamente, depressa, ligeiramente, rapidamente

   Antonyms: devagar, lentamente, vagarosamente

toste m or f (plural tostes)

1. swift; fast; quick

   Synonyms: acelerado, ligeiro, rápido

   Antonyms: lento, vagaroso

toste

1. inflection of tostar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative