Any "old" words in Spanish?

Question

In English, to make our sentences seem religious or old-fashioned, we might use words like thou, thee, hast, or even add -est or -eth to the ends of verbs.

Even in Japanese, just by changing the verb endings or putting polite articles in front of nouns, you can make yourself sound like you're from 100 years ago.

Would Spanish happen to have anything like that?

Answer 1

I'm sure someone will disagree with me, but the voseo form is not heard in most spanish speaking countries and from my perspective seems very formal and old. I have read Bibles written in the voseo form and it is like reading the King James version in english.

It definitely sounds old to me, not having lived in a voseo area. - KevinB, Oct 9, 2010

Answer 2

There are tenses like the future subjunctive that are no longer used but exist in older literature.

yeah, I think future subjunctive loss is like imagination´s retreat. A great loss. - mediterrunio, Oct 10, 2010

Answer 3

It would be fun if you provide some sentences so SDers might try to reproduce them in old Spanish.

In the meantime, here it´s an excerpt from old Spanish writings for you:

Y vos, señor Conde Lucanor, si queréis servir a Dios y hacer penitencia de vuestras culpas, reparad el daño que hayáis podido hacer, antes de partir de vuestra tierra. Haced penitencia por vuestros pecados y no hagáis caso a las galas del mundo, que es todo vanidad, ni creáis a quienes os digan que debéis preocuparos por vuestra honra, pues así llaman a mantener muchos criados, sin mirar si tienen para alimentarlos y sin pensar cómo acabaron o cuántos quedaron de quienes sólo se preocupaban por este tipo de vanagloria. Vos, señor Conde Lucanor, porque queréis servir a Dios y hacer penitencia de vuestras culpas, no sigáis ese camino vacío y lleno de vanidades. Mas, pues Dios os entregó tierras donde podáis servirle luchando contra los moros, por mar y por tierra, haced cuanto podáis para asegurar lo que tenéis. Y dejando en paz vuestros señoríos y habiendo pedido perdón por vuestras culpas, para hacer cumplida penitencia y para que todos bendigan vuestras buenas obras, podréis abandonar todo lo demás, estando siempre al servicio de Dios y terminar así vuestra vida.

Answer 4

Interesting question, did you know that words with the ñ used to have to n's in them? So the old spelling of España was Espanna.

Answer 5

You can use "vuestra merced" for "tú", "do" instead of "donde", "entrambos" instead of "entre ambos", the use of the imperfect subjunctive in -ra instead of the pluperfect subjunctive, the use of the future subjunctive,...

Answer 6

"Señorito" can be used to refer to "master", or the son of the owner of the house.

It also means transvestite in Mexican slang. - lorenzo9, Oct 10, 2010

aha! this could expalin the 'señoritingo' I heard... - galsally, Oct 10, 2010

Answer 7

There are countries that still using the #5 conjugation form. As in Spain, and Centro America like Salvador, Honduras, Colombia, Nicaragua. Ejemplo: Yo amo Tu amas El ama Nosotros amamos VOSOTROS AMAIS Ellos aman