veintiúnico
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Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]Adjective
[edit]veintiúnico (feminine veintiúnica, masculine plural veintiúnicos, feminine plural veintiúnicas)
Noun
[edit]veintiúnico m (plural veintiúnicos, feminine veintiúnica, feminine plural veintiúnicas)
- (slang, Latin America) a unique, singular thing
References
[edit]- ^ Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series. Part 5A: Published Music January-June 1955, volume 9, number 1, Library of Congress, 1956, page 460
Further reading
[edit]- “veintiúnico”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- “veintiúnico” in Diccionario de americanismos, Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española, 2010