cheio
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Earlier cheo. Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese chẽo, from Latin plēnus, from Proto-Italic *plēnos, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós (“full”).
Compare Galician cheo, Spanish lleno, Catalan ple, French plein, Italian pieno, Romanian plin, and English full. Doublet of pleno, a borrowing.
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cheio (feminine cheia, masculine plural cheios, feminine plural cheias, comparable, comparative mais cheio, superlative o mais cheio or cheiíssimo, diminutive cheiinho)
- full, filled, completed
- covered
- Synonym: coberto
- A rua está cheia de óleo.
- The street is covered with oil.
- (figurative) fed up, tired, annoyed
- Synonym: farto
- Estou cheio dele. ― I'm fed up with him.
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cheio f