Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Galician-Portuguese comprido, conprido, past participle of comprir, conprir, from Latin complēre (“to fill up”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]comprido (feminine comprida, masculine plural compridos, feminine plural compridas, comparable, comparative mais comprido, superlative o mais comprido or compridíssimo, diminutive compridinho, augmentative compridão)
Usage notes
[edit]- comprido and longo can largely be treated as synonyms but longo is preferred when referring to greater distances or periods of time.[1]
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ “Longo e comprido”, in Ciberdúvidas da Língua Portuguesa[1], 16 December 2003, archived from the original on 19 May 2023
Further reading
[edit]- “comprido”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “comprido”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
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