cheio
- (comparable) full, filled, completed
- (comparable) covered
- (comparable) full (of people), crowded (having a large number of people)
- (comparable) fat, well-fed
- (comparable, figuratively) fed up, tired, annoyed
Opposite of
vazio
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈʃej.u/
Etymology
In summary
Earlier cheo. Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese chẽo, from Latin plēnus, from Proto-Italic *plēnos, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós (“full”). Doublet of pleno, a learned borrowing. Related to words such as Galician cheo, Spanish lleno, Catalan ple, and, more distantly, English full.
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