incontável

Portuguese

Etymology

From in- + contável.

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ĩ.kõˈta.vew/ [ĩ.kõˈta.veʊ̯]
 
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ĩ.kõˈta.vɛl/ [ĩ.kõˈta.vɛɫ]

  • Rhymes: (Portugal) -avɛl
  • Hyphenation: in‧con‧tá‧vel

Adjective

incontável m or f (plural incontáveis)

  1. countless; innumerable (too many to count)
  2. (mathematics) uncountable (incapable of being enumerated by natural numbers)
  3. (grammar, of a noun) uncountable (about a noun which cannot be counted)

Derived terms

  • incontavelmente

Further reading

  • incontável” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
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