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sumo.

highest, greatest

4 characters2 syllables approx.Português language

Meaning & usage

adj/ˈsũ.mu/Brazil/ˈsu.mu/Portugal

  1. highest, greatest

Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Latin summus.

noun/ˈsũ.mu/Brazil/ˈsu.mu/Portugal

  1. summit, top

    masculine
Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Latin summus.

noun/ˈsũ.mu/Brazil/ˈsu.mu/Portugal

  1. juice

    Portugal · masculine
Where this word comes from

From Old Galician-Portuguese çumo, from Arabic زُوم (zūm, “juice, sap”), from Ancient Greek ζωμός (zōmós). Cognate of Galician zume and Spanish zumo.

noun/ˈsũ.mu/Brazil/ˈsu.mu/Portugal

  1. sumo

    masculine · uncountable
Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Japanese 相撲 (sumō, “to mutually rush at”).

verb/ˈsũ.mu/Brazil/ˈsu.mu/Portugal

  1. first-person singular present indicative of sumir

    first-person · form-of · indicative · present · singular
Where this word comes from

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