cuento
Catalan
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish cuento. Doublet of conte.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Northern) [ˈkwe̞n.tu]
- IPA(key): (Balearic, Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈkwen.to]
- IPA(key): (Central) [ˈkwen.tu]
- Hyphenation: cuen‧to
Noun
cuento m (plural cuentos)
- (Castilianism, proscribed) folktale
- Synonym: rondalla
Further reading
- Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “cuento”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkwento/ [ˈkwẽn̪.t̪o]
Audio (Colombia): (file) - Rhymes: -ento
- Syllabification: cuen‧to
Etymology 1
Etymology tree
Inherited from Old Spanish, from Vulgar Latin *contu(s) / *comptu(s), from Latin computus. Doublet of cómputo, a borrowing.
Noun
cuento m (plural cuentos)
- story
- (colloquial) tale, lie
- (obsolete) one million
- Synonym: millón
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- a cuento de qué
- acabados son cuentos
- bicuento
- colorín colorado, este cuento se ha acabado
- cuentacuentos
- cuentista
- cuento de cuentos
- cuento de horno
- cuento de viejas
- dejarse de cuentos
- el cuento de nunca acabar
- en cuento de
- en todo cuento
- ese es el cuento
- estar en el cuento
- libro de cuentos
- no venir a cuento
- poner en cuentos
- quitarse de cuentos
- ser mucho cuento drae
- sin venir a cuento
- tener más cuento que Calleja
- tricuento
- va de cuento
- vivir del cuento
Related terms
Descendants
Etymology 2
Verb
cuento
- first-person singular present indicative of contar
Further reading
- “cuento”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 24th edition, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 30 October 2026
- “cuento”, in Tesoro de los diccionarios históricos de la lengua española [Thesaurus of the Historical Dictionaries of the Spanish Language], Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], launched 2021
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