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Galician
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Uncertain. Compare Spanish chisme.
Noun
[edit]chisme m (plural chismes)
- gossip
- a worthless object, thingy
- Synonym: cachivalho
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit]chisme
- inflection of chismar:
Further reading
[edit]“chisme” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
Portuguese
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]
- Hyphenation: chis‧me
Etymology 1
[edit]Uncertain, perhaps equivalent to etymology 2. Compare Spanish chisme.
Noun
[edit]chisme m (plural chismes) (Portugal, colloquial)
- gossip (idle talk)
- Synonyms: bisbilhotice, mexerico, fuxico, (Brazil) fofoca
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]chisme m (plural chismes) (Trás-os-Montes)
Further reading
[edit]- “chisme”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
- “chisme” in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2024
- “chisme”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- “chisme”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “chisme”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Spanish
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Uncertain. A connection to cisma (“schism; discord”) has been proposed on the grounds that rumours can cause strife. Coromines considers it more likely to be a further evolution of etymology 2 below.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]chisme m (plural chismes)
- gossip
- Synonyms: (Chile) cahuín, (Chile) copucha, cotilleo, pelambre, (El Salvador) chambre
- revista de chismes ― gossip magazine
- ¡Eso no son más que chismes! ― That's just gossip!
- 2019, Pedro Almodóvar, Dolor y gloria (motion picture), spoken by Salvador Mallo (Antonio Banderas):
- Alberto, los chismes envejecen, como una persona.
- Alberto, gossip ages, like people.
- trinket, gadget
- (colloquial) thingy (something whose name one cannot recall)
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]From Old Spanish çisme f, from Latin cīmicem m. Initial consonant altered presumably by association with the synonymous doublet chinche.
Noun
[edit]chisme f (plural chismes) (obsolete)
- bedbug
- 1507, Antonio de Nebrija, Vocabularius:
- Cimex,icis por la chisme o chinche
- [The Latin word] cīmex, -icis means 'bedbug'
References
[edit]- Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “chisme”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 376
Further reading
[edit]- “chisme”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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