cuento
Meaning
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- (masculine) story
- (colloquial,masculine) tale, lie
- (masculine,obsolete) one million
Concepts
story
tale
fairy tale
short story
fable
legend
history
yarn
myth
romance
account
fairy story
see dejarse de cuentos
see sin cuento
theater
theatre
confession
message
news
jingle
nursery rhyme
fib
taradiddle
tarradiddle
narration
recital
joke
wisecrack
talk
novella
lie
prevarication
hank
report
Frequency
Hyphenated as
cuen‧to
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈkwento/
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish, from Vulgar Latin *contu(s) / *comptu(s), from Latin computus. Doublet of cómputo, a borrowing.
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New
contar
- (transitive) to count; to tally
- (transitive) to tell (a story); narrate
- (transitive) to be (a certain number of years of age)
- (intransitive) to rely
- (intransitive) to have available
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