conto

Senso (Inglese)

Noun

1. (masculine) tale, story (account of an asserted fact or circumstance)
2. (masculine) short story (work of fiction shorter than a novel)
3. (masculine, obsolete) count (a quantity counted)
4. (Portugal, dated, masculine) count (a quantity counted)
5. (Portugal, masculine) count (a quantity counted)
6. (Brazil, masculine, slang) count (a quantity counted)

Verb

first-person singular present indicative of contar

contar

1. (transitive) to tell (to convey given information)
2. (transitive) to tell; to narrate (relate a story or series of events)
3. (transitive) to count (determine the quantity of)
4. (transitive) to be [an amount of time] old; to have [an amount of time] of existence
5. (intransitive) to rely, to count
6. (intransitive, transitive) to have at one’s disposal; to have available
7. (intransitive) to count; to matter (be of significance)

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Concetti

racconto

storia

novella

narrazione

relazione

fiaba

conoscenza

favola

novelletta

panzana

pispola

bugia

storiella

mentire

palla

bugìa

fandonia

fregnaccia

frottola

narrativa

sinonimi

história

novela

estória

fábula

narrativa

mentirinha

crônica

lenda

mentira

narração

conto de fadas

pessoa conhecida

Traduzioni

story

cuento

Geschichte

Erzählung

conte

verhaal

tale

historia

short story

histoire

nouvelle

història

conte

vertelling

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ˈkõ.tu/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da latino: computus

In summary

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