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cheio.

full, filled, completed

5 characters1 syllables approx.Português language

Meaning & usage

adj/ˈʃej.u/Brazil[ˈʃeɪ̯.u]Brazil/ˈʃɐj.u/Portugal/ˈt͡ʃej.u/Northern, Portugal
  1. full, filled, completed

    comparable
    A rua está cheia de trânsito.
    Estou cheio.
  2. covered

    comparable
    A rua está cheia de óleo.
  3. full (of people), crowded (having a large number of people)

    comparable
    O shopping tá cheio hoje, é melhor a gente voltar outro dia.
  4. fat, well-fed

    comparable
  5. fed up, tired, annoyed

    comparable · figuratively
    Estou cheio dele.
Where this word comes from

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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