lesto
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Uncertain. Possibly from a slang expression. Compare Portuguese lesto (“fast, agile”), Spanish listo and Catalan llest.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
lesto (feminine lesta, masculine plural lesti, feminine plural leste)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → French: leste
Further reading edit
- lesto in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams edit
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Perhaps from Proto-Germanic *listiz; compare Old High German and Old Norse lista, English list, Italian lesto and Spanish listo. Alternatively, possibly from a Vulgar Latin *lextus or *lestus, reduced from *lexitus, as an alteration of Latin lēctus (“chosen; read”), participle of legō.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
lesto (feminine lesta, masculine plural lestos, feminine plural lestas)
- agile
- Synonyms: ágil, desembaraçado, rápido
Further reading edit
- “lesto” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
- “lesto” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Tocharian B edit
Etymology edit
An uncertain formation, but ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie (down), lay; resting place”), whence lyäk-. Cognate with Tocharian A lyäk. Also related to lest (“heap, pile”).
Noun edit
lesto
Related terms edit
References edit
- Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) “lesto”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 609