mesturar

Galician

Etymology

13th century. From Old Galician and 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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mestuˈɾaɾ/

Verb

1. (transitive) to mix, to stir
   • 1409, José Luis Pensado Tomé (ed.), 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

   Synonyms: anazar, remexer

2. (transitive) to admix, mix
   • 1439, Antonio García y Garcia (ed.), 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. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to mingle; to socialise

Related terms

• mestura

References

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• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “mestur”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
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• 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

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mestuˈɾaɾ/ [mes.t̪uˈɾaɾ]

Verb

1. (archaic) to mix