conto – Old Portuguese noun declension

Old Portuguese noun forms of conto

Noun: conto
Gender: m Hyphenation:
Singular mconto
Plural mcontos

Sample Sentences

  • Et diz o conto que Telémacus fuy moy bõo caualeyro a marauilla et sesudo et dereyteyro. (An the story says that Telemachus was a wondrous knight and intelligent and righteous) [1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 744:]
  • Aras Perez de Parrega que lles thomara seu aver de suas cassas de Mondim et de Carraszedo … et le britara seus contos et seus privilegios [1280, M. Romaní Martinez (ed.), La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira (1025-1310). Santiago: Tórculo Edicións, page 1089]
  • 1460, Rui Vasques, Crónica de Santa María de Íria, in Souto Cabo, José António (ed.) (2001): Crónica de Santa María de Íria. Estudo e edizón de ---. Santiago: Cabido da S.A.M.I. Catedral / Seminario de Estudos Galegos / Ediciós do Castro, page 110 (And there came many Moors, so many that they were uncountable [lit. "there was no number"], and they fought the king)
  • porque se derrocou hua ponte das grandes que en seus reynos auía, a qual era probeytosa á república de seus reynos, eno qual gastamos fasta hun conto et oyto çentos mill mrs (because a bridge collapsed, one of the large ones in his realms and which was beneficial for the republic of his realms, and in which we spent up to a million and eight hundred thousand maravedis) [1454, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 472:]
  • poso conto de cen mor. de la bona moneda en todos aquellos que enna iglesia nen ennos dezemos nen en los montes feziese forcia nen torto nen tallase nen entrasse los montes nen dellos nen da iglesia nen de suas cousas tomasse nenguna cousa contra uoluntade do chantres (he established a fine of a hundred maravedis of good coin in anyone who, in the church or in the tithing or in the woods, would make force or wrong or cutting or entering the woods, or would took anything from them of from the churches against the will of the precentor) [1284, E. Cal Pardo, editor, Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo, Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 69:]

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin computus.

Verbs referencing "conto"

Galician Nouns conto, Portuguese Nouns conto.

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