cantidad
Spanish
Etymology
From Old Spanish quantidat, borrowed from Latin quantitās, quantitātem[1], from quantus (“how much”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kantiˈdad/ [kãn̪.t̪iˈð̞að̞]
- Rhymes: -ad
- Hyphenation: can‧ti‧dad
Audio (Latin America): (file)
Noun
cantidad f (plural cantidades)
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- → Cebuano: kantidad
Adverb
cantidad
- (colloquial) like hell; a hell of a lot; shedloads
Further reading
- “cantidad”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
References
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
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