usted

Εννοια (English)

1. (by-personal-gender, feminine, formal, masculine) second person formal; you (singular)
2. (Colombia, Costa-Rica, by-personal-gender, feminine, masculine) second person informal; you (singular)

Synonyms

tú

ustedes

vosotros

vos

tu

грамматически ведут себя как местоимения

usted o tú

vos

busted

sumerced

teus

os

vos

se

señor

ti

te

Με παύλα ως

us‧ted

Προφέρεται ως (IPA)

/usˈted/

Ετυμολογία (English)

Cognate with Πορτογαλικά: você

Cognate with Γαλικιανά: vostede

Cognate with Καταλανικά: vostè

Cognate with Αστουριανά: vusté

Cognate with Σαρδηνιακά: bostè

In summary

From vuestra merced (lit. "your mercy" (etymological) or "your grace" (idiomatic)), an honorific style. In 17th-century Spanish, there were a number of variants, including the intermediate forms vuesasted and vusted. Cf. Portuguese você, Galician vostede, Catalan vostè, Asturian vusté and Sardinian bostè. The following list has the variants reported by Coromines and Pascual, with their reported first year of attestation:
(Early modern variants):
bosanzé, 1620 (Lope de Vega, Pedro Carbonero, portrayed as said by (ex-)Muslims)
boxanxé, ca. 1631 (Quevedo, Libro de todas las cosas y otras muchas más, portrayed as said by (ex-)Muslims)
usted, 1620
voarced, 1635
voazé, 1625 (Vélez de Guevara, El Rey en su imagen, portrayed as criminal cant)
vuarced, ca. 1630
vuasted, 1617
vucé, 1626
vuesarced, 1621
vuesasted, 1597
vuested, 1635
vusté (in Quiñones de Benavente, died 1651)
vusted, 1619

Προτάσεις

No mucho , porque usted cosecha lo que siembra .

Όχι πολύ, επειδή αποκομίζετε τι σπέρνει.

Está usted absuelto , capitán Crocker.

Είσαι αθωωμένος, καπετάνιος Crocker.