listo

Significat

Adj

1. clever, smart (with ser)
2. ready, set, all set, prepared, poised, up, down (with estar)
3. alert

Intj

1. get set! (before starting a race)
2. that's it! (it's finished!)

Verb

first-person singular present indicative of listar

Amb guionet com

lis‧to

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈlisto/

Etimologia

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.