cuento

• qüento

Borrowed from Spanish cuento. Doublet of conte.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈkwen.tu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈkwen.to]
• Hyphenation: cuen‧to

cuento m (plural cuentos)

1. (Castilianism, proscribed) folktale

   Synonym: rondalla

• “cuento” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkwento/ [ˈkwẽn̪.t̪o]

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• Rhymes: -ento
• Syllabification: cuen‧to

Inherited from Old Spanish, from Vulgar Latin *contu(s) / *comptu(s), from Latin computus. Doublet of cómputo, a borrowing.

cuento m (plural cuentos)

1. story

   Synonyms: relato, narración

2. (colloquial) tale, lie

   Synonyms: embuste, engaño

3. (obsolete) one million

   Synonym: millón

• → Catalan: cuento
• → Tagalog: kuwento

cuento

1. first-person singular present indicative of contar

• “cuento”, 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