usted
Pronunciation: /usˈted/
“usted” is a Spanish word. Its 3 meanings in English:
pronoun
Etymology
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,…
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