melhor
Appearance
Occitan
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Occitan melhor, from Latin melior, meliōrem.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]melhor m (feminine singular melhora, masculine plural melhors, feminine plural melhoras)
Derived terms
[edit]Old Occitan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin melior, meliōrem.
Noun
[edit]melhor m or f
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “melior”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 6/1: Mabile–Mephitis, page 664
Portuguese
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese mellor, from Latin meliōrem, from Proto-Indo-European *mélyōs, from *mel- (“strong, big”). Compare Catalan millor, Spanish mejor, French meilleur, Italian migliore.
Pronunciation
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Audio (Brazil): (file) Audio (Portugal (Porto)): (file) - Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -ɔɾ, (Brazil) -ɔʁ
- Hyphenation: me‧lhor
Adjective
[edit]melhor m or f (plural melhores)
- comparative degree of bom: better
- Antonym: pior
- Aquela cor é boa, mas esta é melhor. ― That color is nice, but this one is better.
- 2011, Edelvino Razzolini Filho, Administração da Pequena e Média Empresa, IESDE Brasil S.A., →ISBN, page 44:
- Caso o empreendedor saiba separar a amizade dos negócios, certamente estará em melhores condições para o sucesso.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 2014, Augusto Boal, Hamlet e o filho do padeiro: Memórias imaginadas, Editora Cosac Naify, →ISBN, page 217:
- Um poeta pode acordar no meio da noite e escrever belo poema — basta inspiração! Um pintor pintar um quadro em minutos ou anos, como sentir melhor.
- A poet can wake up in the middle of the night and write a beautiful poem — he needs just be inspired! A painter can paint a picture in minutes or years, whichever he finds better.
- (with definite article) superlative degree of bom: best
Adverb
[edit]melhor
- comparative degree of bem: better
- Antonym: pior
- Você fez bem, mas eu faço melhor. ― You did it well, but I do it better.
Usage notes
[edit]Some uses of this comparative are proscribed; see bem.
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “melhor”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “melhor”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
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