visto y no visto
Spanish
Etymology
Literally, “seen and [then] not seen”.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌbisto i ˌno ˈbisto/ [ˌbis.t̪o i ˌno ˈβ̞is.t̪o]
- Syllabification: vis‧to y no vis‧to
Adjective
visto y no visto (feminine vista y no vista, masculine plural vistos y no vistos, feminine plural vistas y no vistas)
- (idiomatic, colloquial) blink-and-you-miss-it
Further reading
- “visto y no visto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024