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contos

contos is the plural of conto.

Meaning of conto

Noun

conto (plural contos)

  1. (historical) In Portugal and Brazil, a million reis.
    • ‘I have a friend […] who has filed suit against the state for the cows and sheep that the army troops ate. He's asking for seventy contos in compensation, no less.’1984, Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen R. Lane, The War of the End of the World, Folio Society, published 2012, page 506

Proper noun capitalized: Contos

Contos (plural Contoses)

  1. A surname from Greek.

Forms of contos

pluralContoses

Origin of contos

Borrowed from Greek Κοντός (Kontós).

Questions about contos

What does contos mean?
Contos means a surname from Greek.
What is contos the plural of?
Contos is the plural of conto.
What part of speech is contos?
Contos is a proper noun.

Words near contos in the dictionary

  1. contortly
  2. contortrostatin
  3. contorts
  4. contortuplicate
  5. contortuplicated
  6. contos
  7. Contoses
  8. Contot
  9. contouche
  10. contour
  11. contour chase

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Adapted from Wiktionary: contos (page history and authors); Contos (page history and authors); conto (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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