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usted

/usˈted/

pronoun/usˈted/

second person formal; you (singular); second person informal; you (singular); you

Synonyms: tú, vos, vuestra merced, vusted, vuesarced, vuesasted, vuestra señoría, sumercé

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 and Sardinian fustei. 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, Ped