cheio

Meaning

  1. (comparable) full, filled, completed
  2. (comparable) covered
  3. (comparable,figuratively) fed up, tired, annoyed

Frequency

A2
Hyphenated as
chei‧o
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈʃej.u/
Etymology

Earlier cheo. Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese chẽo, from Latin plēnus, from Proto-Italic *plēnos, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós (“full”). Compare Galician cheo, Spanish lleno, Catalan ple, French plein, Italian pieno, Romanian plin, and English full. Doublet of pleno, a borrowing.

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