vejez
See also: vejéz
Old Spanish
Alternative forms
- ueiez, veiez (alternative representations of the spelling)
- vejeza
Etymology
From viejo (“old, aged”) + -ez.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /βeˈʒed͡z/
Noun
vejez f (usually uncountable)
- old age
- c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 1r:
- […] Qve ẏo loar me pueda de ti en my veiez. Aſſẏ cuemo me loe en mẏ iuuẽtud.
- […] That I may be able to rejoice in you in my old age as I rejoiced in my youth.
Descendants
Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish vejez. By surface analysis, viejo (“old”) + -ez.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /beˈxeθ/ [beˈxeθ] (Spain)
- IPA(key): /beˈxes/ [beˈxes] (Latin America, Philippines)
Audio (Colombia): (file) - Rhymes: -eθ (Spain)
- Rhymes: -es (Latin America, Philippines)
- Syllabification: ve‧jez
Noun
vejez f (plural vejeces)
- old age
- 1973, “Cuando Ya Me Empiece a Quedar Solo”, in Confesiones de Invierno, performed by Sui Generis:
- Una vejez sin temores / Y una vida reposada
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
See also
- a la vejez, viruelas
Further reading
- “vejez”, 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