vetustez
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /betusˈteθ/ [be.t̪usˈt̪eθ] (Spain)
- IPA(key): /betusˈtes/ [be.t̪usˈt̪es] (Latin America, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -eθ (Spain)
- Rhymes: -es (Latin America, Philippines)
- Syllabification: ve‧tus‧tez
Noun
vetustez f (uncountable)
- great age, ancientness
- 2017 April 2, “Transportes y comunicaciones: estado del arte (y XII)”, in El Nacional[1]:
- Su vetustez y el pésimo estado de las vías hacen que Venezuela ocupe el cuarto lugar mundial por muertos en carretera x 1.
- Its age and the terrible conditions of the roads put Venezuela in fourth place worldwide in highway deaths.
Further reading
- “vetustez”, 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