toste

See also: Toste and tosté

Galician

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɔstɪ]

Adverb

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

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “toste”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “toste”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (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

German

Pronunciation

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Verb

toste

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

Italian

Adjective

toste

1. feminine plural of tosto

Anagrams

• setto, settò, testo, testò

Latin

Participle

toste

1. vocative masculine singular of tostus

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French toster.

Verb

toste

1. alternative form of tosten

Etymology 2

From tosten.

Noun

toste

1. alternative form of tost

Neapolitan

Adjective

toste f pl

1. feminine plural of tuosto

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

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

Adverb

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

Descendants

• Portuguese: toste

Portuguese

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtɔs.t͡ʃi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtɔs.t͡ʃi/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈtɔʃ.t͡ʃi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtɔs.te/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈtɔʃ.tɨ/

Adverb

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

1. quickly; swiftly

   Synonyms: aceleradamente, apressadamente, depressa, ligeiramente, rapidamente

   Antonyms: devagar, lentamente, vagarosamente

Adjective

toste m or f (plural tostes)

1. swift; fast; quick

   Synonyms: acelerado, ligeiro, rápido

   Antonyms: lento, vagaroso

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English toast.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtos.t͡ʃi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtos.t͡ʃi/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈtoʃ.t͡ʃi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtos.te/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈtoʃ.tɨ/

• Hyphenation: tos‧te

Noun

toste m (plural tostes)

1. toast (a salutation while drinking alcohol)

   Synonym: brinde

Further reading

• “toste”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “toste”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• Michaelis

Etymology 3

Verb

toste

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