quinhentos

Portuguese

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Cardinal: quinhentos     Ordinal: quingentésimo     Ordinal abbreviation: 500.º, 500º     Fractional: quingentésimo, quinhentos avos
Portuguese Wikipedia article on 500

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese quinnentos, quinentos, from Latin quīngentōs, accusative masculine plural of quīngentī, from quīnque (“five”) + centum (“hundred”). Compare Galician quiñentos, Spanish quinientos.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kĩˈɲẽ.tus/ [kĩˈj̃ẽ.tus]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kĩˈɲẽ.tus/ [kĩˈj̃ẽ.tus]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /kĩˈɲẽ.tuʃ/ [kĩˈj̃ẽ.tuʃ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /kiˈɲẽ.tos/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kiˈɲẽ.tuʃ/

• Hyphenation: qui‧nhen‧tos

Adjective

quinhentos m (feminine quinhentas)

2. five hundred; 500

Noun

quinhentos m (invariable)

2. five hundred (the value of 500, or something with the value of 500)

Related terms

• cinco
• cento

Descendants

• Kadiwéu: cinyeento

Further reading

• “quinhentos”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “quinhentos”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026