cuento
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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
Frequency
Hyphenated as
cuen‧to
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈkwento/
Etymology
In summary
Inherited from Old Spanish, from Vulgar Latin *contu(s) / *comptu(s), from Latin computus. Doublet of cómputo, a borrowing.
Related words
see dejarse de cuentos
see sin cuento
fairy story
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