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cheio
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Portuguese
Alternative forms
Etymology
Earlier cheo. Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese chẽo, from Latin plēnus, from Proto-Italic *plēnos, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós (“full”). Doublet of pleno, a learned borrowing.
Related to words such as Galician cheo, Spanish lleno, Catalan ple, and, more distantly, English full.
Pronunciation
Adjective
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.
- full (of people), crowded (having a large number of people)
- Synonym: lotado
- O shopping tá cheio hoje, é melhor a gente voltar outro dia.
- The mall is crowded today, we'd better come back another day.
- fat, well-fed
- (figurative) fed up, tired, annoyed
- Synonym: farto
- Estou cheio dele. ― I'm fed up with him.
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “cheio”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
- “cheio”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
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Pronunciation
Noun
cheio f
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