Adjective: cheio
Hyphenation:
| Singular m. | cheio |
| Singular f. | cheia |
| Plural m. | cheios |
| Plural f. | cheias |
Sample Sentences
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A rua está cheia de trânsito. (The street is full of traffic.)
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Estou cheio. (I'm full (not hungry anymore).)
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uma mão cheia (a handful, a fistful)
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A rua está cheia de óleo. (The street is covered with oil.)
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O shopping tá cheio hoje, é melhor a gente voltar outro dia. (The mall is crowded today, we'd better come back another day.)
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Estou cheio dele. (I'm fed up with him.)
Adjectives inflected like cheio
desamparado,
metafórico,
extintivo,
metafísico,
autotrófico,
saxónico,
saxônico,
eslávico,
bandeiroso,
inescrupuloso,
desavergonhado,
babilónio,
babilônio,
super-humano,
acidêmico,
sereno,
sestro,
severo,
celibatário,
seboso, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. 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.
2. Related to words such as Galician cheo, Spanish lleno, Catalan ple, and, more distantly, English full. See: Latin Adjectives '
plēnus', Galician Adjectives '
cheo', Spanish Adjectives '
lleno', Catalan Adjectives '
ple', English Adjectives '
full'.
Verbs referencing "cheio"
Italian Adjectives
pieno, French Adjectives
plein, Galician Adjectives
cheo.
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