llest

Uncertain. Perhaps from a Vulgar Latin *lextus or *lestus, reduced from *lexitus, as an alteration of Latin lēctus (“chosen; read”), participle of legō.^[1][2] Alternatively of Germanic origin, possibly from Proto-Germanic *listiz. Compare Spanish listo, Portuguese and Italian lesto.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈʎest]

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llest (feminine llesta, masculine plural llests or llestos, feminine plural llestes)

1. ready

   Synonym: a punt

2. clever, smart

   Synonym: espavilat

• enllestir
• llestament
• llestesa

• llestar

• “llest”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “llest”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)