menos

From Latin minus.

menos

1. less

   Antonym: más

   Esti pueblu ye menos guapu que'l to. ― This town is less nice than that one.

From Old Galician-Portuguese menos, which displaced the semi-learned form mẽos, learned borrowing from Latin minus comparative of parum.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmenʊs]

menos

1. less

   Antonym: máis

menos

1. except, but

   Vinche todos eses filmes menos o último ― I saw all that movies, except the last one

menos m (invariable)

1. (mathematics) minus
2. less

menos m pl (plural only)

1. the minority of a collective

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “menos”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “menos”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “menos”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “menos”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “menos”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• “menos”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

• meno

Inherited from Old Spanish menos (“less”), inherited from Latin minus, comparative of parum.

menos (Hebrew spelling מינוס)^[1]

1. less

   Synonym: manko

   Antonym: mas

   • (Can we date this quote?), Folkmasa‎^[1]:

     esta ropa es menos buena ke la ke vites ayer

     This clothing is less good than what you saw yesterday.

2. (often with definite article) least

   Synonym: manko

   Antonym: mas

   • 1995, Aki Yerushalayim: revista de las emisiones de Israel en djudeo-espaniol‎^[2], numbers 49-52, page 62:

     Uno de los menos konosidos de entre estos livros, el Seder Eliyau Zuta de Rabi Eliyau Kapsali, viene de ser reeditado agora kon el titolo Chronique de l'Expulsion en una traduksion al fransez de Simone Sultan-Bohbot.

     One of the least known among these books, el Seder Eliyau Zuta, by Rabbi Eliyau Kapsali, is now going to be reedited with the title Chronique de l'Expulsion in a French translation by Simone Sultan-Bohbot.

menos (Hebrew spelling מינוס)^[1]

1. (mathematics) minus
   • (Can we date this quote?), Folkmasa‎^[3]:

     Sinko menos dos le aze tres

     Five minus two equals three.

Inherited from Latin minus, comparative of parum.

menos (diminutive comparative)

1. less

• Ladino: meno, menos, מינוס, מינו
• Spanish: menos

• Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946) “menos”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume II, Chapel Hill, page 336

From Old Galician-Portuguese menos, displacing collateral form mẽos, from Latin minus, neuter of minor (“lesser; smaller”), comparative of parvus (“small”).

• Hyphenation: me‧nos

menos (not comparable)

1. 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.

menos

1. except; but

   Synonyms: exceto, fora

   Li todos, menos o último. ― I read all, except the last one.

2. (mathematics) minus (indicates subtraction)

   Três menos dois é um. ― Three minus two is one.

menos m or f (plural menos)

1. 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.

• Some use the feminine plural menas. It is only used in Brazil. Such usage is non-standard and highly proscribed.

menos m (invariable)

1. minus sign (the symbol −)

   Synonym: sinal de menos

Inherited from Old Spanish menos, inherited from Latin minus, comparative of parum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmenos/ [ˈme.nos]
• Rhymes: -enos
• Syllabification: me‧nos

menos

1. less

   Antonym: más

   Camina menos rápido, por favor.

   Walk less quickly, please.

2. (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.

• Used in forming the comparative of adjectives.
• With the definite article, used in forming the superlative of adjectives.

menos (plural menos)

1. less, fewer

   Antonym: más

2. least, fewest

   Antonym: más

menos

1. minus

   Dos menos uno son uno.

   Two minus one is one.

2. except, besides

   Synonyms: excepto, salvo

   Antonym: incluido

   Todos menos Juan vinieron a la fiesta.

   Everyone except Juan came to the party.

menos m (plural menos)

1. minus sign

• “menos”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

• minos

Borrowed from Spanish menos.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈmenos/ [ˈmɛː.n̪os]
• Rhymes: -enos
• Syllabification: me‧nos

menos (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜒᜈᜓᜐ᜔)

1. less; lacking; of less value

   Synonym: kulang

• “menos”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018