vetustez
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Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Spain) /betusˈteθ/ [be.t̪usˈt̪eθ]
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /betusˈtes/ [be.t̪usˈt̪es]
- Rhymes: -eθ
- Rhymes: -es
- Syllabification: ve‧tus‧tez
Noun
[edit]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
[edit]- “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], 2024 December 10