a punto
Appearance
Italian
[edit]Adverb
[edit]Spanish
[edit]Adverb
[edit]- (idiomatic) at the ready; to hand
- 1620, Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio, El caballero de Illescas, Act II:
- Bien puede ya descansar,
patrón, vuestra señoría,
que ya está la cama a punto.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading
[edit]- “a punto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28