imenso

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• immenso (pre-reform spelling)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin im-

Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-

Proto-Italic *mētis

Latin metior

Proto-Indo-European *-tus

Proto-Italic *-tus

Latin -tus

Latin mēnsus

Latin immēnsuslbor.

Portuguese imenso

Learned borrowing from Latin immēnsus.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /iˈmẽ.su/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /iˈmẽ.su/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /iˈmẽ.so/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /iˈmẽ.su/

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• Hyphenation: i‧men‧so

Adjective

imenso (feminine imensa, masculine plural imensos, feminine plural imensas)

1. immense

Adverb

imenso (comparable, comparative mais imenso, superlative o mais imenso)

1. (Portugal) immensely, very much

Usage notes

• In European Portuguese, the word’s first syllable is occasionally nasalized. This is reminiscent of the word’s original spelling, immenso.

Further reading

• “imenso”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026