lindo

Meaning

Adj

1. pretty
2. cute

Verb

first-person singular present indicative of lindar

Concepts

pretty

beautiful

cute

nice

lovely

comely

charming

delightful

winsome

fine

neat

sweet

bewitching

breathtaking

dazzling

ravishing

alluring

disarming

handsome

bonny

sympathetic

good

pleasant

graceful

good-looking

excellent

superb

nice-looking

elegant

friendly

delicious

kind

tasty

cunning

bonnie

fair

sightly

great

gorgeous

blithe

frolicsome

Hyphenated as

lin‧do

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈlindo/

Etymology

From Old Spanish lindo, of uncertain origin, but probably from Latin legitimus (“lawful, proper”) through metathesis and assimilation: *lid(i)mo > *limdo > lindo. If so, a doublet of the learned borrowing legítimo. Corominas considers both lindo and its possible Portuguese cognate lídimo (“legitimate”) as semi-learned terms, but this is uncertain.
Some sources derive it from Latin limpidus (“clean”) instead, but this is less likely for both phonetic and semantic reasons. Old Spanish lindo originally meant “legitimate”, later “authentic, pure, good”, and eventually gave rise to the modern meaning. Moreover, Latin limpidus is already the source of Spanish limpio.