apuesto

/aˈpwesto/ · A2 · adj

handsome, good-looking

🤵 a-PUESTO: well put together, from Latin appositus (placed fittingly)

Apuesto comes from Latin appositus, 'placed near, fitting', the same root as English apposite. Spanish puesto means 'put', so a handsome person is literally well put together. The epithet sense is the same idea: a name placed beside another.

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