mosto

mosto

See also: moŝto and mōstõ

Galician

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmosto̝/

Adjective

mosto m (feminine singular 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

Noun

mosto m (plural mostos)

1. must (fruit juice)

References

• “mosto” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “mosto” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “mosto” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “mosto” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Italian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

mosto m (plural mosti)

1. must (fruit juice)

Related terms

• moscio
• mostoso

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Portuguese

Etymology

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

Noun

mosto m (plural mostos)

1. must (unfermented fruit juice)

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Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

mosto m (plural mostos)

1. must (fruit juice)

Related terms

• mostajo
• mostaza
• mostoso
• mozo (possibly)

Further reading

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