veintiúnico

Spanish

Etymology

From veinte (“twenty”) +‎ y (“and”) +‎ único (“unique”). The term was first used by Artemio Santoyo in his song "La Veintiúnica", copyrighted in 1955.^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /beinˈtjuniko/ [bẽĩn̪ˈt̪ju.ni.ko]
Rhymes: -uniko
Syllabification: vein‧tiú‧ni‧co

Adjective

veintiúnico (feminine veintiúnica, masculine plural veintiúnicos, feminine plural veintiúnicas)

(slang, Latin America) unique, singular

Noun

veintiúnico m (plural veintiúnicos, feminine veintiúnica, feminine plural veintiúnicas)

(slang, Latin America) a unique, singular thing

References

^ Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series. Part 5A: Published Music January-June 1955, volume 9, number 1, Library of Congress, 1956, page 460

“veintiúnico”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
“veintiúnico”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010

[1] Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series. Part 5A: Published Music January-June 1955, volume 9, number 1, Library of Congress, 1956, page 460

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