leído y escribido
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Compound of leído, which can mean either "read" or "well-read", and escribido, which is a (deliberately) misconjugated past participle form of escribir ("to write"). The phrase literally translates roughly as "well-read and well-wroten".
Adjective
[edit]leído y escribido (feminine leída y escribida, masculine plural leídos y escribidos, feminine plural leídas y escribidas)
- (ironic or humorous) learned
- (ironic or derogatory) boastful about one's own supposed learnedness
Further reading
[edit]- “leído, da y escribido, da”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
- escribir – Diccionario panhispánico de dudas – Real Academia Española y Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española