🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

contar

Pronunciation / Transliteration: /konˈtaɾ/

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Count/kaʊnt/
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"Ella sabe contar en tres idiomas."

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2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To determine the total number of items in a collection or group.

    "She began to count the books on the shelf."
As noun
  1. 1

    An act of numbering or finding a total.

    "The final count showed a huge voter turnout."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Old French 'counte', which came from the Latin 'computare', meaning to compute, reckon, or calculate. Over centuries, the meaning broadened from mathematical calculation to include importance, reliability, and enumeration.

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