cuentacuentos
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Etymology
[edit]Verb-object compound, composed of cuenta (“to tell”) + cuentos (“stories”), a calque of English storyteller.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˌkwentaˈkwentos/ [ˌkwẽn̪.t̪aˈkwẽn̪.t̪os]
- Rhymes: -entos
- Syllabification: cuen‧ta‧cuen‧tos
Noun
[edit]cuentacuentos m or f by sense (plural cuentacuentos)
Further reading
[edit]- “cuentacuentos”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
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- Spanish verb-object compounds
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