cheio

Portuguese

Alternative forms

cheo, cheyo (obsolete)
tcheio (eye dialect, North Portugal)
chêi (eye dialect, Caipira)

Etymology

Earlier cheo, from Old Portuguese chẽo, from Latin plēnus, from Proto-Italic *plēnos, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós (“full”). Compare Catalan ple, Esperanto plena, French plein, Galician cheo, Ido plena, Italian pieno, Romanian plin, Sardinian prenu, Spanish lleno. Cf. also pleno, a borrowed doublet.

Pronunciation

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɐj.u/, /ˈʃej.u/
(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʃej.u/
Hyphenation: chei‧o

Adjective

cheio m (feminine singular cheia, masculine plural cheios, feminine plural cheias, comparable)

full, filled, completed
Synonyms: repleto, completo, lotado

Antonym: vazio

A rua está cheia de trânsito. ― The street is full of traffic.

Estou cheio. ― I'm full (not hungry anymore).

uma mão cheia ― a handful, a fistful
covered
Synonym: coberto

A rua está cheia de óleo.
The street is covered with oil.
(figuratively) fed up, tired, annoyed
Synonym: farto

Estou cheio dele. ― I'm fed up with him.

Inflection

Inflection of cheio

	singular		plural
	masculine	feminine	masculine	feminine
positive	cheio	cheia	cheios	cheias
comparative	mais cheio	mais cheia	mais cheios	mais cheias
superlative	o mais cheio cheiíssimo	a mais cheia cheiíssima	os mais cheios cheiíssimos	as mais cheias cheiíssimas
augmentative	—	—	—	—
diminutive	cheiinho	cheiinha	cheiinhos	cheiinhas

Derived terms

rechear

Descendants

Kabuverdianu: tcheu

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