quantidade

Portuguese

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *kʷ-

Proto-Indo-European *kʷos?

Proto-Indo-European *-onts?

Proto-Indo-European *kʷoider.?

Proto-Italic *kʷāntos

Latin quantus

Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-ts

Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts

Proto-Italic *-tāts

Latin -tās

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Ancient Greek ποσότης (posótēs)calq.

Latin quantitātemlbor.

Portuguese quantidade

Learned borrowing from Latin quantitātem.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kwɐ̃.t͡ʃiˈda.d͡ʒi/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kwɐ̃.tiˈda.dɨ/ [kwɐ̃.tiˈða.ðɨ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kwɐ̃.tiˈda.dɨ/ [kwɐ̃.tiˈða.ðɨ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /kwɐ̃.tiˈda.dɨ/

• Audio (Brazil (Caipira)):

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Noun

quantidade f (plural quantidades)

1. quantity, amount

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:quantidade.

Related terms

• quantitativo
• quanto

Further reading

• “quantidade”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “quantidade”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026