comprido

== Portuguese == === Etymology === From Old Galician-Portuguese comprido, conprido, past participle of comprir, conprir, from Latin complēre (“to fill up”). === Pronunciation === Homophone: cumprido (with /ũ/) Hyphenation: com‧pri‧do === Adjective === comprido (feminine comprida, masculine plural compridos, feminine plural compridas, comparable, comparative mais comprido, superlative o mais comprido or compridíssimo, diminutive compridinho, augmentative compridão) long (having great length) Synonym: longo Antonym: curto long; lengthy (having great duration) Synonyms: longo, extenso Antonym: curto tall and lean; lanky ==== Usage notes ==== comprido and longo can largely be treated as synonyms but longo is preferred when referring to greater distances or periods of time. ==== Related terms ==== comprimento ==== Descendants ==== Guinea-Bissau Creole: kumpridu Macanese: cumprido ==== References ==== === Further reading === “comprido”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “comprido”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026