singelo
Portuguese
editEtymology
editFrom Old Galician-Portuguese singelo, from Vulgar Latin *singellus, from Latin singulus. Compare Spanish sencillo.
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: sin‧ge‧lo
Adjective
editsingelo (feminine singela, masculine plural singelos, feminine plural singelas)
- simple
- Synonym: simples
- 1977, Clarice Lispector, A hora da estrela [The Hour of the Star]:
- Aliás o material de que disponho é parco e singelo demais, as informações sobre os personagens são poucas e não muito elucidativas, informações essas que penosamente me vêm de mim para mim mesmo, é trabalho de carpintaria.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- sincere
- Synonym: sincero
- naive
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