an academic view
We can in Spanish—at a cultivated level of language, certainly—use the name of a century as an adjunct attached to the noun.
On the occasion of recently dealing with the adjective ‘nineteenth-century’ I have noticed the fact – which I bring up here, the reader may not fear, without a shadow of chauvinism – that European languages as close to ours as French or English lack an equivalent to it. …
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