vejez
See also: vejéz
Old Spanish
Alternative forms
- ueiez, veiez (alternative representations of the spelling)
- vejeza
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /βeˈʒed͡z/
Noun
vejez f (usually uncountable)
- old age
- 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.
Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish vejez. By surface analysis, viejo (“old”) + -ez.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /beˈxeθ/ [beˈxeθ]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /beˈxes/ [beˈxes]
Audio (Colombia): (file) - (Spain) Rhymes: -eθ
- (Latin America) Rhymes: -es
- Syllabification: ve‧jez
Noun
vejez f (plural vejeces)
- old age
- 1973, “Cuando Ya Me Empiece a Quedar Solo”, in Confesiones de Invierno, performed by Sui Generis:
- Una vejez sin temores / Y una vida reposada
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See also
- a la vejez, viruelas
Further reading
- “vejez”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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