tropecientos
Spanish
Etymology
Blend of tropel (“crowd”) + cientos (“hundreds”), modeled after doscientos, trescientos, cuatrocientos, […] .
Adjective
tropecientos (feminine tropecientas, plurale tantum)
Related terms
- (Mexico) chorromil
- (Peru) cuchucientos
- (Argentina) quichicientos
- (El Salvador) quinimil
- (Venezuela, Peru) sopotocientos
Further reading
- “tropecientos”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024