cumplemés
Spanish
Etymology
Verb-object compound, composed of cumple (“to complete”) + mes (“month”), literally “month-completer”.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌkumpleˈmes/ [ˌkũm.pleˈmes]
- Rhymes: -es
- Syllabification: cum‧ple‧més
Noun
cumplemés m (plural cumplemeses)
- (chiefly Dominican Republic, Chile, Rioplatense, sometimes in the plural) monthiversary; mensiversary
- Synonym: mesiversario
- Mañana celebraremos nuestro primer cumplemés de ser pareja.
- Tomorrow we'll celebrate our first monthiversary of becoming a couple.
Further reading
- “cumplemés”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
- “cumplemés”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010
- “cumplemés, con tilde, término válido”, in FundéuRAE (Fundación del Español Urgente) [Foundation of Urgent Spanish] (in Spanish), Agencia EFE; Real Academia Española, 22 May 2020