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quanto

Aragonese

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Etymology

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Akin to Spanish cuanto, from Latin quantus.

Pronoun

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quanto

  1. how many

Ido

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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quanto (plural quanti)

  1. quantity, amount

Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈkwan.to/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -anto
  • Hyphenation: quàn‧to

Etymology 1

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From Latin quantus.

Adjective

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

  1. how, how much, how many
    Quanti meccanici lavorano ora? ― How many mechanics work now?

Determiner

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quanto

  1. how, how much, how many
    Quanto é grosso il tuo cane? ― How big is your dog?

Adverb

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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.”)
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from New Latin quantum.

Noun

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quanto m (plural quanti)

  1. quantum
    Synonym: quantum

Latin

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Adjective

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quantō

  1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of quantus

References

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  • “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.

Macanese

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Portuguese quanto.

Pronunciation

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Determiner

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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

Particle

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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

Usage notes

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

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Portuguese

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ɐ̃tu
  • Hyphenation: quan‧to

Preposition

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quanto

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

Derived terms

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Determiner

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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.

Pronoun

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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.

Derived terms

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Adverb

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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.
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Spanish

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Adjective

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

  1. Obsolete form of cuanto.

Adverb

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quanto

  1. Obsolete form of cuanto.

Pronoun

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quanto n (correlative of tanto)

  1. Obsolete form of cuanto.
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