cuento
Catalan
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Spanish cuento. Doublet of conte.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editcuento m (plural cuentos)
- (Castilianism, proscribed) folktale
- Synonym: rondalla
Further reading
edit- “cuento” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Spanish
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editInherited from Old Spanish, from Vulgar Latin *contu(s) / *comptu(s), from Latin computus. Doublet of cómputo, a borrowing.
Noun
editcuento m (plural cuentos)
- story
- (colloquial) tale, lie
- (obsolete) one million
- Synonym: millón
Hyponyms
editDerived terms
edit- a cuento de qué
- acabados son cuentos
- cuentacuentos
- cuentista
- cuento de cuentos
- cuento de horno
- cuento de viejas
- dejarse de cuentos
- el cuento de nunca acabar
- en cuento de
- en todo cuento
- ese es el cuento
- estar en el cuento
- libro de cuentos
- no venir a cuento
- poner en cuentos
- quitarse de cuentos
- ser mucho cuento drae
- sin venir a cuento
- tener más cuento que Calleja
- va de cuento
- vivir del cuento
Related terms
editDescendants
editEtymology 2
editVerb
editcuento
Further reading
edit- “cuento”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28
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