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Old Spanish
Etymology
From viejo (“old, aged”) + -ez.
Pronunciation
Noun
vejez f (usually uncountable)
- old age
- Antonyms: juuentut f, mancebez f, mancebia f
c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 1r:[…] Qve ẏo loar me pueda de ti en my veiez. Aſſẏ cuemo me loe en mẏ iuuẽtud.- That I may be able to rejoice in you in my old age as I rejoiced in my youth.
Descendants
Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish vejez. By surface analysis, viejo (“old”) + -ez.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /beˈxeθ/
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /beˈxes/
- Rhymes: -eθ
- Rhymes: -es
- Syllabification: ve‧jez
Noun
vejez f (plural vejeces)
- old age
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