Adjective: listo
Hyphenation: lis‧to
| Singular m. | listo |
| Singular f. | lista |
| Plural m. | listos |
| Plural f. | listas |
Sample Sentences
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Cree que es el estudiante más listo de su clase. (He has the illusion that he is the smartest in his class.)
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¿Estás listo? (Are you ready?)
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Ella siempre estaba lista para un desafío. (She was always up for a challenge.)
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Estoy listo para lo que quieras hacer. (I'm down for whatever you want to do.)
Adjectives inflected like listo
periurbano,
desestacionalizado,
cervantesco,
atomístico,
multígrafo,
meseteño,
arriesgado,
metafórico,
extintivo,
metafísico,
megadiverso,
autotrófico,
francoarenoso,
gibareño,
eslávico,
noviolento,
inescrupuloso,
fiduciario,
petromacorisano,
carpenteriano, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Unknown. Cognate to Portuguese lesto (“agile”), Catalan llest (“clever; ready”), Italian lesto (“quick”), Maltese lest (“ready”).
2. * 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”).
3. * Alternatively, perhaps from a Vulgar Latin *lextus or *lestus, reduced from *lexitus, as an alteration of Latin lēctus (“chosen; read”), participle of legō.
4. Compare English -logist (in sense of "expertise"). See: Portuguese Adjectives '
lesto', Catalan Adjectives '
llest', Italian Adjectives '
lesto'.
Verbs referencing "listo"
Portuguese Adjectives
lesto, Catalan Adjectives
llest, Asturian Adjectives
llistu.
Translations