muito
Galician
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- muyto (obsolete)
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese muito, from Latin multus (“much; many”), from the Proto-Indo-European *ml̥tos (“crumbled, crumpled”, past passive participle). Compare Galician moito, Italian molto, Romanian mult, and Spanish mucho.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈmũj̃.tu/ [ˈmũɪ̯̃.tu]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈmũj̃.to/ [ˈmũɪ̯̃.to]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈmũj̃.tu/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: mui‧to
Determiner
muito (feminine muita, masculine plural muitos, feminine plural muitas)
Usage notes
This word and its derivatives (muito, muita, muitos, muitas, mui) are the only words in Portuguese to contain unmarked nasalization.
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:muito.
Derived terms
- há muito
- muito de
- muitíssimo
- quando muito
Adverb
muito (not comparable)
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:muito.
Descendants
- Macanese: muto
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