mexer

13th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese mecer, mexer, from Latin miscēre (“to mix”). Cognate with Portuguese mexer and Spanish mecer.

• IPA^(key): /meˈʃeɾ/

mexer (first-person singular present mexo, first-person singular preterite mexín, past participle mexido)
mexer (first-person singular present mexo, first-person singular preterite mexim or mexi, past participle mexido, reintegrationist norm)

1. (intransitive, dated) to mix together; to intermingle

   Synonym: mesturar

   • 1282, M. Lucas Álvarez, P. Lucas Domínguez, editors, El monasterio de San Clodio do Ribeiro en la Edad Media: estudio y documentos, Sada / A Coruña: Edicións do Castro, page 390:

     vendo essa mia herdade que iaz a su a uossa granja de Penellas, untre anballas aguas dos regueyrus que per y corren d'ona parte et da outra, et uay firir áás mestas u se anbus estes regeyrus mexen

     I sell my property that is next to your farm of Penelas, in between both waters of the streams that flow there, and its perimeter comes to the confluence where both this streams mix together

2. (transitive) to stir; to move

   Synonyms: anazar, remexer, revolver

3. (intransitive, figurative) to investigate; to snoop

   Synonym: remexer

• mesto (“dense”)
• mestas (“confluence”)
• remexer (“to stir, move”)

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “mecer”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “mexen”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “mexer”, 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), “mexer”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “mexer”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Old Galician-Portuguese mecer, from Latin miscēre (“to mix”). Compare Spanish mecer.

• Hyphenation: me‧xer

mexer (first-person singular present mexo, first-person singular preterite mexi, past participle mexido)

1. (transitive) to move, to mess with, to put your hands on

   Não mexas nas minhas coisas. ― Don't move my stuff.

   Esse filme mexeu comigo. ― That movie moved me.

   Para de te mexer! ― Stop moving! (Stand still!)

2. (transitive) to fiddle with

   Estava mexendo no meu celular.

   I was fiddling with my cellphone.

3. (reflexive) to move it; to hurry up

• mesclar
• mestiço
• misto
• mistura
• mixar