quinhentos

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Portuguese

Portuguese numbers (edit)
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50
    Cardinal: quinhentos
    Ordinal: quingentésimo
    Ordinal abbreviation: 500.º
    Fractional: quingentésimo, quinhentos avos
Portuguese Wikipedia article on 500

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese quinnentos, quinentos, from Latin quīngentōs, accusative masculine plural of quīngentī, from quīnque (“five”) + centum (“hundred”). Compare Galician quiñentos, Spanish quinientos.

Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: qui‧nhen‧tos

Adjective

quinhentos m (feminine quinhentas)

  2. five hundred; 500

Noun

quinhentos m (invariable)

  2. five hundred (the value of 500, or something with the value of 500)

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