diestro

From Latin dexter, dextrum, from Proto-Italic *deksteros, from Proto-Indo-European *deḱs(i)-tero-, from *deḱs- (“right”).

• Rhymes: -estɾo

diestro (feminine singular diestra, masculine plural diestros, feminine plural diestras)

1. right, right-hand (direction)
2. right-handed
3. skillful, dexterous, adroit
4. (heraldry) dexter, dextral

• (right-hand): derecho
• (skillful): hábil, habiloso

• (right-handed): zurdo
• (right-hand): izquierdo, siniestro

• a diestro y siniestro
• diestramente
• destreza

• ambidiestro / ambidextro

diestro m (plural diestros)

1. (bullfighting) bullfighter

• matador
• torero