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5-letter words (1 found)

CONTO,

4-letter words (6 found)

COON,COOT,ONTO,OONT,TOCO,TOON,

3-letter words (11 found)

CON,COO,COT,NOO,NOT,ONO,OON,OOT,TOC,TON,TOO,

2-letter words (4 found)

NO,ON,OO,TO,

You can make 22 words from conto according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

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Definitions and meaning of conto

conto

Etymology

From Portuguese conto. Doublet of computus.

Noun

conto (plural contos)

  1. (now historical) In Portugal and Brazil, a million reis.

Anagrams

  • Coton

Catalan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central) [ˈkon.tu]
  • IPA(key): (Balearic, Valencian) [ˈkon.to]

Verb

conto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of contar

Galician

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese conto, from Vulgar Latin, from Latin computus (“calculation”). Doublet of cómputo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkonto̝/

Noun

conto m (plural contos)

  1. tale, story
  2. gossip, hearsay
  3. matter, issue
  4. (archaic) account, registry
    • 1280, M. Romaní Martinez (ed.), La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira (1025-1310). Santiago: Tórculo Edicións, page 1089:
      Aras Perez de Parrega que lles thomara seu aver de suas cassas de Mondim et de Carraszedo [...] et le britara seus contos et seus privilegios
      Aras Perez de Parrega, who took their possessions from inside their houses of Mundín and Carracedo [...] and torn their accounts and privileges into pieces
  5. (archaic) calculation, number, sum
    • 1460, Rui Vasques, Crónica de Santa María de Íria, in Souto Cabo, José António (ed.) (2001): Crónica de Santa María de Íria. Estudo e edizón de ---. Santiago: Cabido da S.A.M.I. Catedral / Seminario de Estudos Galegos / Ediciós do Castro, page 110:
  6. (archaic) a million
  7. (archaic) fine (fee levied as punishment for breaking a contract or the law)
  8. a large quantity
  9. (dated) twelve pairs of sheaves
  10. (dated) forty Galician pounds of grain
Related terms

References

  • “conto” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “conto” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “conto” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “conto” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “conto” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Etymology 2

Verb

conto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of contar

Interlingua

Etymology

From Spanish cuento and Interlingua contar.

Noun

conto (plural contos)

  1. story, account
  2. count, number, amount

Italian

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin *contu(s), *comptu(s), from Latin computus. Doublet of computo and compito.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkon.to/
  • Rhymes: -onto
  • Hyphenation: cón‧to

Noun

conto m (plural conti)

  1. calculation
  2. account (at a bank, etc.)
  3. bill (for a meal, hotel, etc.)
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Alemannic German: Kunte
  • → German: Konto
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: konto
  • → Polish: konto
    • → Yiddish: קאָנטע (konte)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkon.to/
  • Rhymes: -onto
  • Hyphenation: cón‧to

Verb

conto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of contare

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Old French cointe (“known, courteous, refined”), from Latin cognitus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkon.to/
  • Rhymes: -onto
  • Hyphenation: cón‧to

Adjective

conto (feminine conta, masculine plural conti, feminine plural conte)

  1. (archaic) known, familiar

Etymology 4

Borrowed from Old French cointe (“known, courteous, refined”), as with Etymology 3, but crossed with Latin cōmptus (“adorned, ornamented; arranged; dressed”), perfect passive participle of cōmō (“to arrange, to dress, to adorn”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkon.to/, (high-style) /ˈkɔn.to/
  • Rhymes: -onto, (high-style) -ɔnto
  • Hyphenation: cón‧to, (high-style) còn‧to

Adjective

conto (feminine conta, masculine plural conti, feminine plural conte)

  1. (archaic) refined, elegant, gracious

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkon.toː/, [ˈkɔn̪t̪oː]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkon.to/, [ˈkɔn̪t̪o]

Noun

contō

  1. dative/ablative singular of contus

References

  • conto 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)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: con‧to

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese conto, from Vulgar Latin *contu(s), *comptu(s), from Latin computus (“calculation”). Doublet of cômputo.

Noun

conto m (plural contos)

  1. tale, story (account of an asserted fact or circumstance)
    Eu vou contar um conto. ― I will tell a story.
    Synonym: história
  2. (literature) short story (work of fiction shorter than a novel)
  3. count (a quantity counted)
    1. (obsolete) one million reis
    2. (dated, Portugal) a thousand escudos
    3. (Portugal) five euros
    4. (slang, Brazil) real (unit of currency)
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants

Etymology 2

From Latin contus (“pike”), from Ancient Greek κοντός (kontós, “type of cavalry lance”).

Noun

conto m (plural contos)

  1. the butt of a spear or polearm

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

conto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of contar

Further reading

  • “conto” in iDicionário Aulete.
  • “conto” in Dicionário inFormal.
  • “conto” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
  • “conto” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
  • “conto” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
  • “conto” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

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