somente

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• sòmente (pre-reform spelling)
• sómente (pre-reform spelling)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese soomente~soamente, from Early Medieval Latin sōlā mente. By surface analysis, só +‎ -mente.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌsɔˈmẽ.t͡ʃi/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌsɔˈmẽ.tɨ/

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• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ẽt͡ʃi, (Portugal) -ẽtɨ
• Hyphenation: so‧men‧te

Adverb

somente (not comparable)

1. just, only, merely

   Synonym: apenas

Descendants

• Macanese: sômente

Further reading

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