# chisme
## Galician
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈt͡ʃisme/ [ˈt͡ʃiz̺.mɪ]
* Rhymes: -isme
* Hyphenation: chis‧me

### Etymology 1

Uncertain. Compare Spanish chisme.

#### Noun

chisme m (plural chismes)
* gossip
* a worthless object, thingy
    Synonym: cachivalho

##### Derived terms

* chismada
* chismar
* chismeiro
* chismão

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

chisme
* inflection of chismar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “chisme”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
* “chisme” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈʃiz.mi/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈʃiz.mi/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈʃiʒ.mi/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈʃiz.me/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈʃiʒ.mɨ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈʃiʒ.mɨ/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /ˈt͡ʃiʒ.mɨ/
* Hyphenation: chis‧me

### Etymology 1

Uncertain, perhaps equivalent to etymology 2. Compare Spanish chisme.

#### Noun

chisme m (plural chismes) (Portugal, colloquial)
* gossip (idle talk)
    Synonyms: bisbilhotice, mexerico, fuxico, (Brazil) fofoca

### Etymology 2

From Latin cīmicem.

#### Noun

chisme m (plural chismes) (Trás-os-Montes)
* bedbug
    Synonym: percevejo

### Further reading

* “chisme”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
* “chisme”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
* “chisme”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
* “chisme”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
* 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
### Etymology 1

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

* IPA: /ˈt͡ʃisme/ [ˈt͡ʃiz.me]
* Rhymes: -isme
* Syllabification: chis‧me
* Audio (Spain):(file)

#### Noun

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: coso, chirimbolo

##### Synonyms

* cacharro

##### Derived terms

* chismear
* chismografía
* chismorrear
* chismorreo
* chismoso

##### Descendants

* → Cebuano: tsismis
* → Tagalog: tsismis

### Etymology 2

From Old Spanish çisme f, from Latin cīmicem m. Initial consonant altered presumably by association with the synonymous doublet chinche.

#### Noun

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

* Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “chisme”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 376

### Further reading

* “chisme”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10