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listo.

clever, smart (with ser)

5 characters2 syllables approx.Español language

Meaning & usage

adj/ˈlisto/[ˈlis.t̪o]

  1. clever, smart (with ser)

    Cree que es el estudiante más listo de su clase.

  2. ready, set, all set, prepared, poised, up, down (with estar)

    ¿Estás listo?
    Ella siempre estaba lista para un desafío.

  3. alert

Where this word comes from

Unknown. Cognate to Portuguese lesto (“agile”), Catalan llest (“clever; ready”), Italian lesto (“quick”), Maltese lest (“ready”). * If "clever" is the original sense, probably from Proto-Germanic *listiz; compare Old High German and Old English list, both "knowledge, experience, cunning, art, trick, slyness" (see English list). A semantic development "clever" → "quick" → "ready" is very plausible, but note that the association with "cleverness" apparently exists only in Spanish and Catalan (and might thus be secondary). Note also Irish cliste (“clever”). * Alternatively, perhaps from a Vulgar Latin *lextus or *lestus, reduced from *lexitus, as an alteration of Latin lēctus (“chosen; read”), participle of legō. Compare English -logist (in sense of "expertise").

intj/ˈlisto/[ˈlis.t̪o]

  1. get set! (before starting a race)

  2. that's it! (it's finished!)

Where this word comes from

Unknown. Cognate to Portuguese lesto (“agile”), Catalan llest (“clever; ready”), Italian lesto (“quick”), Maltese lest (“ready”). * If "clever" is the original sense, probably from Proto-Germanic *listiz; compare Old High German and Old English list, both "knowledge, experience, cunning, art, trick, slyness" (see English list). A semantic development "clever" → "quick" → "ready" is very plausible, but note that the association with "cleverness" apparently exists only in Spanish and Catalan (and might thus be secondary). Note also Irish cliste (“clever”). * Alternatively, perhaps from a Vulgar Latin *lextus or *lestus, reduced from *lexitus, as an alteration of Latin lēctus (“chosen; read”), participle of legō. Compare English -logist (in sense of "expertise").

verb/ˈlisto/[ˈlis.t̪o]

  1. first-person singular present indicative of listar

    first-person · form-of · indicative · present · singular
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