contía

Galician

Etymology

13th century. From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese quantia, from Latin quantus (“how much, how many”) probably influenced by contar (“to count”). Cognate with Spanish cuantía.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /konˈtia̝/

Noun

contía f (plural contías)

1. sum (quantity of money)

References

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• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “contia”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
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