apresto
Spanish, noun
apresto is spelled A-P-R-E-S-T-O (7 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written Spanish, the 121,166th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Apresto is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “preparation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of aprestar. With an accent, aprestó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of aprestar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acción y efecto de aprestarse o prepararse”.
What does apresto mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepreparation
- 2
masculinestiffness
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of aprestar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of aprestar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Acción y efecto de aprestarse o prepararse. 2. Acción y efecto de aprestar un tejido para darle suavidad o imperbeabilizarlo. 3. Material usado para esta tarea.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of apresto
- aprestos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is apresto in Spanish?
apresto appears about once in every 10 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).