quanto

Akin to Spanish cuanto, from Latin quantus.

quanto

1. how many

• IPA^(key): /ˈkwan.to/

quanto (plural quanti)

1. quantity, amount

• IPA^(key): /ˈkwan.to/

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• Rhymes: -anto
• Hyphenation: quàn‧to

From Latin quantus.

quanto (feminine quanta, masculine plural quanti, feminine plural quante)

1. how, how much, how many

   Quanti meccanici lavorano ora? ― How many mechanics work now?

quanto

1. how, how much, how many

   Quanto é grosso il tuo cane? ― How big is your dog?

quanto

1. to the extent that; as (much); insomuch as; as... as; as far as

   a quanto pare ― apparently (literally, “as far as it appears”)

   Sono triste quanto povero.

   I am as sad as I am poor.

   Lei è molto più capace di quanto lo fossi io a 22 anni.

   She is much more capable than I was when I was 22 years old.

   (literally, “She is much more capable than the extent to which I was [capable] at 22 years.”)

Borrowed from New Latin quantum.

quanto m (plural quanti)

1. quantum

   Synonym: quantum

quantō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of quantus

• “quanto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, 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.

• quánto

From Portuguese quanto.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkwan.tu/

quanto

1. (interrogative) how much, how many (what number or quantity of)

   Quanto custâ?

   How much does it cost?

   Vôs têm quanto filo-filo?

   How many children do you have?

2. several, a few, some

   quanto cento ― several hundred

   Chomâ quanto cúli para cartá tudo ancuza

   Call a few coolies to carry everything

quanto

1. plural particle for determiners ending in -unga

   estunga quanto ― these

   acunga quanto ― those

   Estunga quanto casa sâm bem di feo

   These houses are very ugly

• Sometimes connected with a hyphen, i.e. estunga-quanto and acunga-quanto.

• https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm
• https://comotavai.com/2012/02/24/pronomes-demonstrativos/

• quãto (obsolete, abbreviation)

From Old Galician-Portuguese quanto, from Latin quantus (“how much; how many”). Doublet of quantum.

• (Minho) IPA^(key): /ˈkɐ̃(n).tu/, /ˈkã(n).tu/
• Rhymes: -ɐ̃tu
• Hyphenation: quan‧to

quanto

1. as (to the same extent or degree that)

• quanto a

quanto (feminine quanta, masculine plural quantos, feminine plural quantas)

1. (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?

2. (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.

quanto (feminine quanta, masculine plural quantos, feminine plural quantas)

1. (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?

2. (relative) as much as

   Eu como quanto quiser.

   I eat as much as I want.

• o quanto antes
• quanto a
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quanto

1. (interrogative, relative) how (to what degree)

   Synonym: quão

   Digam o quanto quente vocês querem a pizza.

   Tell me how hot you want your pizza.

quanto (feminine quanta, masculine plural quantos, feminine plural quantas)

1. obsolete form of cuanto

quanto

1. obsolete form of cuanto

quanto n (correlative of tanto)

1. obsolete form of cuanto