cuentacuentos
Spanish edit
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, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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- Spanish verb-object compounds
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