quanto

Akin to Spanish cuanto, from Latin quantus.

quanto

1. how many

• IPA^(key): /ˈkwan.to/

quanto (plural quanti)

1. quantity, amount

• IPA^(key): /ˈkwan.to/

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• Rhymes: -anto
• Hyphenation: quàn‧to

From Latin quantus.

quanto (feminine quanta, masculine plural quanti, feminine plural quante)

1. how, how much, how many

   Quanti meccanici lavorano ora? ― How many mechanics work now?

quanto

1. how, how much, how many

   Quanto é grosso il tuo cane? ― How big is your dog?

quanto

1. to the extent that; as (much); insomuch as; as... as; as far as

   a quanto pare ― apparently (literally, “as far as it appears”)

   Sono triste quanto povero.

   I am as sad as I am poor.

   Lei è molto più capace di quanto lo fossi io a 22 anni.

   She is much more capable than I was when I was 22 years old.

   (literally, “She is much more capable than the extent to which I was [capable] at 22 years.”)

• a quanto pare
• a quanto sembra
• in quanto
• in quanto a
• per quanto
• per quanto concerne
• per quanto riguarda
• quantità
• quantizzare
• quanto a
• quantomeno
• quantunque

Borrowed from New Latin quantum.

quanto m (plural quanti)

1. quantum

   Synonym: quantum

quantō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of quantus

• “quanto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “quanto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• quanto 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)
• quanto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

• quãto (obsolete, abbreviation)

From Old Galician-Portuguese quanto, from Latin quantus (“how much; how many”). Doublet of quantum.

• Rhymes: -ɐ̃tu
• Hyphenation: quan‧to

quanto

1. as (to the same extent or degree that)

• quanto a

quanto (feminine quanta, masculine plural quantos, feminine plural quantas)

1. (interrogative, relative) how much; how many (what number or quantity of)

   Quanto leite você bebeu?

   How much milk did you drink?

   Você pretendia comprar quantos ingressos mesmo?

   How many tickets were you planning to buy again?

2. (in exclamations) that’s so many (that’s very numerous; that’s a large number of)

   Quantas pessoas! Posso perder-me.

   So many people! I might get lost.

quanto (feminine quanta, masculine plural quantos, feminine plural quantas)

1. (interrogative) how much (what price)

   Você cobra quanto?

   How much do you charge?

   Quanto custa uma guitarra novinha?

   How much does a brand new guitar cost?

2. (relative) as much as

   Eu como quanto quiser.

   I eat as much as I want.

• o quanto antes
• quanto a
• quanto antes

quanto

1. (interrogative, relative) how (to what degree)

   Synonym: quão

   Digam o quanto quente vocês querem a pizza.

   Tell me how hot you want your pizza.

quanto (feminine quanta, masculine plural quantos, feminine plural quantas)

1. Obsolete form of cuanto.

quanto

1. Obsolete form of cuanto.

quanto n (correlative of tanto)

1. Obsolete form of cuanto.