diestro

From Latin dextrum, singular accusative of dexter (“right, right-hand”).

IPA^(key): /ˈdjestɾo/

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

1. right, right-hand (direction)
   • c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 97v.

     […] Et q́ deſcéda ſobreſta piedra la uertud de oḿe q́ téga en la mano dieſtra lança ¬ en la ſinieſtra un af traſtornada.

     […] And may over this stone descend the virtue of the man with a spear in his right hand and an upturned bird on his left.

• siniestro

• Spanish: diestro, diestra

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈdjestɾo/ [ˈd̪jes.t̪ɾo]
• Rhymes: -estɾo
• Syllabification: dies‧tro

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

1. right, right-hand (direction)

   Synonym: derecho

   Antonyms: izquierdo, siniestro

2. right-handed

   Antonym: zurdo

3. skillful, dexterous, adroit

   Synonyms: hábil, habiloso

4. (heraldry) dexter, dextral

• a diestro y siniestro
• diestramente
• destreza

• ambidiestro / ambidextro

diestro m (plural diestros)

1. righty, a right-handed person
2. (bullfighting) bullfighter

   Synonyms: matador, torero

• “diestro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014