mesto

See also: město and mestò

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian mesto and used as a tempo mark.

Adjective

mesto (not comparable)

1. (music) sad, mournful

Adverb

mesto (not comparable)

1. (music) mournfully

Anagrams

• -stome, Motes, Tomes, moste, motes, o-stem, smote, tomes

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Galician

Etymology

13th century. From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese mesto, from Latin mixtus (“mixed”). Doublet of misto. Cognate with Portuguese misto, Spanish misto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmestʊ]

Adjective

1. 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

2. mixed

References

• 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: ILG
• 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

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Ingrian

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian вместо (vmesto).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmesto/
• Hyphenation: mes‧to

Preposition

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?

References

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 306

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Italian

Etymology 1

From Latin maestus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛ.sto/
• Rhymes: -ɛsto
• Hyphenation: mè‧sto

Adjective

mesto (feminine mesta, masculine plural mesti, feminine plural meste, superlative mestissimo)

1. sad

   Synonym: triste

Related terms

• mestamente
• mestizia

 

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈme.sto/, /ˈmɛ.sto/
• Rhymes: -esto, -ɛsto
• Hyphenation: mé‧sto, mè‧sto

Verb

mesto

1. first-person singular present indicative of mestare

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Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• mjȅsto (Ijekavian)
• mȉsto (Ikavian)

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *město.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mêsto/
• Hyphenation: me‧sto

Noun

mȅsto n (Cyrillic spelling ме̏сто)

1. place (location, position)
2. space
3. a settlement (usually between a village and a town in size)

Declension

Declension of mesto

	singular	plural
nominative	mesto	mesta
genitive	mesta	mȇstā
dative	mestu	mestima
accusative	mesto	mesta
vocative	mesto	mesta
locative	mestu	mestima
instrumental	mestom	mestima

Derived terms

• mȅsnī
• mȅsno
• mestánce
• mestàrina
• mestášce
• mèstimicē
• mèstimičan
• mèstimično
• mȅstopīs
• mestòvina

 

Preposition

mȅsto (Cyrillic spelling ме̏сто) (+ genitive case)

1. instead of

   Synonym: ùmesto

Quotations

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

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Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *město.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈme̞s.to̞/
• Hyphenation: mes‧to

Noun

mesto n (genitive singular mesta, nominative plural mestá, genitive plural miest, declension pattern of mesto)

1. city
2. town

Declension

Declension of mesto

	singular	plural
nominative	mesto	mestá
genitive	mesta	miest
dative	mestu	mestám
accusative	mesto	mestá
locative	meste	mestách
instrumental	mestom	mestami

Derived terms

• hlavné mesto
• mešťan
• mestečko
• mestský
• veľkomesto

 

Further reading

• “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, 2024

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Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *město.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mèːstɔ/

Noun

mẹ́sto n

1. place, location
2. town (settlement)

Inflection

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Neuter, hard
nom. sing.	mésto
gen. sing.	mésta
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	mésto	mésti	mésta
genitive (rodȋlnik)	mésta	mést	mést
dative (dajȃlnik)	méstu	méstoma	méstom
accusative (tožȋlnik)	mésto	mésti	mésta
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	méstu	méstih	méstih
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	méstom	méstoma	mésti

Further reading

• “mesto”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin mixtus. Doublet of mixto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmesto/ [ˈmes.t̪o]

Adjective

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

1. mixed

   Synonyms: mezclado, mixto

Further reading

• “mesto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014