/ˈkonto/, [ˈkon̪.t̪ʊ]
OrixeInherited from Old Galician-Portuguese conto, from Vulgar Latin, from Latin computus (“calculation”). Doublet of cómputo.
- masculinetale, story
“Et diz o conto que Telémacus fuy moy bõo caualeyro a marauilla et sesudo et dereyteyro.” — An the story says that Telemachus was a wondrous knight and intelligent and righteous
- masculinegossip, hearsay
- masculinematter, issue
“Anque à prea non hègrande
si ca si, ò sacristan
disque à pestàna do figado
se lle hiba alegrando já.
Ô cont'hè, si enturra n'eso
Deus me libre das suas más,
que'anque eu non queira, na Coba
de chantar” — Although the booty is not large,
yes and yes, the sacristan
they say that his liver's eyes
were brightening already.
The issue is, if he persists,
God save me from his hands,
that even if I don't want
- archaic, masculineaccount, registry
“Aras Perez de Parrega que lles thomara seu aver de suas cassas de Mondim et de Carraszedo … et le britara seus contos et seus privilegios”
- archaic, masculinecalculation, number, sum
“1460, Rui Vasques, Crónica de Santa María de Íria, in Souto Cabo, José António (ed.) (2001): Crónica de Santa María de Íria. Estudo e edizón de ---. Santiago: Cabido da S.A.M.I. Catedral / Seminario d” — And there came many Moors, so many that they were uncountable [lit. "there was no number"], and they fought the king
- archaic, masculinea million
“porque se derrocou hua ponte das grandes que en seus reynos auía, a qual era probeytosa á república de seus reynos, eno qual gastamos fasta hun conto et oyto çentos mill mrs” — because a bridge collapsed, one of the large ones in his realms and which was beneficial for the republic of his realms, and in which we spent up to a million and eight hundred thousand maravedis
- archaic, masculinefine (fee levied as punishment for breaking a contract or the law)
“poso conto de cen mor. de la bona moneda en todos aquellos que enna iglesia nen ennos dezemos nen en los montes feziese forcia nen torto nen tallase nen entrasse los montes nen dellos nen da iglesia n” — he established a fine of a hundred maravedis of good coin in anyone who, in the church or in the tithing or in the woods, would make force or wrong or cutting or entering the woods, or would took anyt
- masculinea large quantity
- dated, masculinetwelve pairs of sheaves
- dated, masculineforty Galician pounds of grain
- first-person, form-of, indicative, present, singularfirst-person singular present indicative of contar
Formascontos(plural)