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Portuguese
Etymology
Earlier cheo. Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese chẽo, from Latin plēnus, from Proto-Italic *plēnos, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós (“full”).
Compare Galician cheo, Spanish lleno, Catalan ple, French plein, Italian pieno, Romanian plin, and English full. Doublet of pleno, a borrowing.
Pronunciation
Adjective
cheio (feminine cheia, masculine plural cheios, feminine plural cheias, comparable, comparative mais cheio, superlative o mais cheio or cheiíssimo, diminutive cheiinho)
- full, filled, completed
- Synonyms: repleto, completo, lotado, pleno
- Antonym: vazio
- A rua está cheia de trânsito. ― The street is full of traffic.
- Estou cheio. ― I'm full (not hungry anymore).
- uma mão cheia ― a handful, a fistful
- covered
- Synonym: coberto
A rua está cheia de óleo.- The street is covered with oil.
- (figurative) fed up, tired, annoyed
- Synonym: farto
- Estou cheio dele. ― I'm fed up with him.
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Romanian
Pronunciation
Noun
cheio f
- vocative singular of cheie