siniestro

From Latin sinister, sinistrum, through a Vulgar Latin root *sinexter, sinextrum, from contamination with dexter (“right”), whence Spanish diestro[1]. Compare Portuguese sestro, Italian sinistro (archaic or Old Italian sinestro), Old French senestre.

• Rhymes: -estɾo

siniestro (feminine singular siniestra, masculine plural siniestros, feminine plural siniestras)

1. left, left-hand (direction)
2. sinister
3. unhappy
4. malicious, evil
5. (heraldry) sinister, sinistral

• (left-hand): izquierdo
• (malicious): malintencionado
• (unhappy): infeliz

• (left-hand): derecho, diestro

• a diestro y siniestro

siniestro m (plural siniestros)

1. accident, catastrophe, disaster

• siniestra