menos
See also: ménos
Asturian edit
Etymology edit
Adverb edit
menos
Galician edit
Etymology edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese menos, which displaced the semi-learned form mẽos, learned borrowing from Latin minus comparative of parum.
Pronunciation edit
Adverb edit
menos
Preposition edit
menos
Noun edit
menos m (invariable)
Noun edit
menos m pl (plural only)
- the minority of a collective
References edit
- “menos” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “menos” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “menos” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “menos” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “menos” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Further reading edit
- “menos” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
Ladino edit
Adverb edit
menos (Latin spelling)
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese menos, displacing collateral form mẽos, from Latin minus, neuter of minor (“lesser; smaller”), comparative of parvus (“small”).
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: me‧nos
Adverb edit
menos (not comparable)
- less (in lower degree)
- Antonym: mais
- Aqui é menos frio. ― Here is less cold.
- Se trabalhares menos, cansarás menos. ― If you work less, you will tire less.
Preposition edit
menos
- except; but
- (mathematics) minus (indicates subtraction)
- Três menos dois é um. ― Three minus two is one.
Pronoun edit
menos m or f (plural menos)
- fewer (a smaller number of), less (a smaller size or significance of)
- Antonym: mais
- Menos pessoas correm. ― Fewer people run.
- Atirou com menos precisão. ― He shot with less precision.
Usage notes edit
- Some use the feminine plural menas. It is only used in Brazil. Such usage is non-standard and highly proscribed.
Noun edit
menos m (invariable)
- minus sign (the symbol −)
- Synonym: sinal de menos
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Spanish menos, inherited from Latin minus, comparative of parum.
Pronunciation edit
Adverb edit
menos
- less
- Antonym: más
- Camina menos rápido, por favor.
- Walk less quickly, please.
- (often with definite article) least
- Antonym: más
- Él come el menos de todos en la familia.
- He eats the least of everyone in the family.
Usage notes edit
- Used in forming the comparative of adjectives.
- With the definite article, used in forming the superlative of adjectives.
Determiner edit
menos (plural menos)
Preposition edit
menos
Noun edit
menos m (plural menos)
Derived terms edit
- a menos que
- al menos
- andar a tres menos cuartillo
- caso de menos valer
- cuanto menos, cuando menos
- echar de menos
- el día menos pensado
- ir a menos
- más o menos
- menos da una piedra
- menos de la cuenta
- menos lobos, Caperucita
- menos mal
- menospreciar
- nada más y nada menos
- nada menos
- nada y menos
- ni más ni menos
- ni mucho menos
- no poder menos
- no ser para menos
- poco más o menos
- por carta de menos
- por lo menos
- quien más, quien menos
- tanto menos que
- tener sus más y sus menos
- un día más un día menos
- venir a menos
Further reading edit
- “menos”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Tagalog edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
menos (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜒᜈᜓᜐ᜔)
Derived terms edit
References edit
- “menos”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018