leste

Syllable Decomposition

leste

from Italian lesto (deft, agile), related to listo ("alert, intelligent") in Spanish, llest ("alert, lively, deft") in Catalan, listig ("deft, cunning") in German, from list ("ruse"). the word appears in the 15th century in French, Catalan and Italian.

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lestes

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