cheio

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

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈʃej.u/ [ˈʃeɪ̯.u]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈʃej.o/ [ˈʃeɪ̯.o]
 

  • Rhymes: -eju, -ɐju, -eu
  • Hyphenation: chei‧o

Adjective

cheio (feminine cheia, masculine plural cheios, feminine plural cheias, comparable, comparative mais cheio, superlative o mais cheio or cheiíssimo, diminutive cheiinho)

  1. full, filled, completed
    Synonyms: repleto, completo, lotado, pleno
    Antonym: vazio
    A rua está cheia de trânsito. ― The street is full of traffic.
    Estou cheio. ― I'm full (not hungry anymore).
    uma mão cheia ― a handful, a fistful
  2. covered
    Synonym: coberto
    A rua está cheia de óleo.
    The street is covered with oil.
  3. 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.
  4. fat, well-fed
  5. (figurative) fed up, tired, annoyed
    Synonym: farto
    Estou cheio dele. ― I'm fed up with him.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Guinea-Bissau Creole: tciu
  • Kabuverdianu: tcheu, cheiu

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈkejo]

Noun

cheio f

  1. vocative singular of cheie
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