quanto
AragoneseEdit
EtymologyEdit
Akin to Spanish cuanto, from Latin quantus.
PronounEdit
quanto
IdoEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
quanto (plural quanti)
ItalianEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
AdjectiveEdit
quanto (feminine quanta, masculine plural quanti, feminine plural quante)
AdverbEdit
quanto
Related termsEdit
- a quanto pare
- a quanto sembra
- in quanto
- in quanto a
- per quanto
- per quanto concerne
- per quanto riguarda
- quantità
- quantizzare
- quanto a
- quantomeno
- quantunque
Etymology 2Edit
Borrowed from New Latin quantum.
NounEdit
quanto m (plural quanti)
LatinEdit
AdjectiveEdit
quantō
ReferencesEdit
- “quanto”, in Charlton T[homas] Lewis; Charles [Lancaster] Short (1879) […] A New Latin Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company; Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- “quanto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- quanto in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- quanto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
PortugueseEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- quãto (obsolete, abbreviation)
EtymologyEdit
From Old Portuguese quanto, from Latin quantus (“how much; how many”). Doublet of quantum.
PronunciationEdit
PrepositionEdit
quanto
- as (to the same extent or degree that)
Derived termsEdit
PronounEdit
quanto m (feminine quanta, plural quantos, feminine plural quantas)
- (interrogative, relative) how much; how many (what number or quantity of)
- Quanto leite você bebeu?
- How much milk did you drink?
- Você pretendia comprar quantos ingressos mesmo?
- How many tickets were you planning to buy again?
- (interrogative, relative) how (to what degree)
- Digam o quanto quente vocês querem a pizza.
- Tell me how hot you want your pizza.
- Synonym: quão
- (interrogative) how much (what price)
- Você cobra quanto?
- How much do you charge?
- Quanto custa uma guitarra novinha?
- How much does a brand new guitar cost?
- (in exclamations) that’s so many (that’s very numerous; that’s a large number of)
- Quantas pessoas! Posso perder-me.
- So many people! I might get lost.
- (relative) as much as
- Eu como quanto quiser.
- I eat as much as I want.
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
SpanishEdit
AdjectiveEdit
quanto (feminine quanta, masculine plural quantos, feminine plural quantas)
- Obsolete form of cuanto.
AdverbEdit
quanto
- Obsolete form of cuanto.
PronounEdit
quanto n (correlative of tanto)
- Obsolete form of cuanto.