esmo
Galician
Verb
esmo
- first-person singular present indicative of esmar
Portuguese
Etymology
Deverbal from esmar.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈez.mu/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ˈeʒ.mu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈez.mo/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈeʒ.mu/
- Rhymes: (Brazil) -ezmu, (Rio de Janeiro, Portugal) -eʒmu
- Hyphenation: es‧mo
Noun
esmo m (plural esmos)
- (now rare) estimate, conjecture
- Synonym: estimativa
- 1882, Machado de Assis, “O segredo do Bonzo”, in Papeis Avulsos, 1st edition, Rio de Janeiro: Lombaerts & c., pages 179–180:
- O povo, segundo o esmo mais baixo, seria passante de cem pessoas, varões sómente, e todos embasbacados.
- The people, according to the lowest estimate, would have numbered over one hundred, only men, and all of them stupefied.
Usage notes
Now especially fossilized in the expression a esmo.
Derived terms
Further reading
- “esmo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “esmo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026