(Latin America) Do you like these rings? - They are pretty but too expensive.¿Te gustan estos anillos? - Son lindos pero muy caros. c. son hermosos Look at all those little cottages near the beach. - Oh my, they are pretty!Mira todas esas casitas cerca de la playa. - ¡Oh...
in an advantageous position. well-to-do; successful. More idioms and phrases containingpretty in a fix (pretty pickle) kettle of fish, pretty sitting pretty Discover More Related Words attractive beautiful charming cute elegant good-looking
, a back-formation from finire or else from Latin finis "that which divides, a boundary, limit, border, end" (see finish (v.)); hence "acme, peak, height," as in finis boni "the highest good." The English word is from c. 1300 as "rich, valuable, costly;" also in a moral ...
(Latin America) The girl is pretty and healthy.La nena es linda y saludable. 2. (used to talk about an adolescent) a. la chica es bonita The girl is pretty and has a nice smile.La chica es bonita y tiene una linda sonrisa. b. la muchacha es bonita The girl is pretty and ver...
and this word is seen in many forms in Dutch, cf. the wordsprettig,sportive, part, trick. A connexion has been suggested with the GreekrpaicrucOs,irpitrrav, to do, make, through Latinpractica,practice, performance; but theNew English Dictionaryrejects these, as also Celtic sources, as unf...
[before 900; Old EnglishTrōiān< LatinTrōjānus] Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend: ...
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend: Switch to new thesaurus Verb 1. sit - be seated sit down lounge - sit or recline comfortably; "He was lounging on the sofa" sprawl - sit or lie with one's limbs spread out perch, roost, rest - sit, as on a branch; "The birds perched ...
Possibly from Old Frenchembuie"one fettered," from Vulgar Latin*imboiare, from Latinboia"leg iron, yoke, leather collar," from Greekboeiai dorai"ox hides." (Words for "boy" double as "servant, attendant" across the Indo-European map — compare Italianragazzo, Frenchgarçon, Greekpais,...
This ‘attractive’ pretty is attested ofpeople, especially women and children, by 1440, in the same source that gives us the earliest record of handsome so far, the English-Latin bilingual dictionary Promptorium Parvulorum: ‘Praty, elegans, formosus, elegantulus, formulosus’, i.e., ...
a1066 年以前, 英语借用了520个拉丁语单词, 有100 多个至今仍为标准英语。 Before 1066, English has borrowed 520 Latin words, some more than 100 are still the standard English until now.[translate] a请输入您需要翻译的文本!早上好 正在翻译,请等待...[translate] ...