clever, smart (with ser); ready, set, all set, prepared, poised, up, down (with estar); alert
“Cree que es el estudiante más listo de su clase.” — He has the illusion that he is the smartest in his class.
Synonyms: avispado, astuto, pillo, inteligente, perspicaz, preparado, dispuesto, aparejado
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