quanto

Aragonese

Etymology

Akin to Spanish cuanto, from Latin quantus.

Pronoun

quanto

1. how many

Ido

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkwan.to/

Noun

quanto (plural quanti)

1. quantity, amount

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkwan.to/
• Rhymes: -anto
• Hyphenation: quàn‧to

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin quantus.

Alternative forms

• quant' (apocopic)

Determiner

quanto (feminine quanta, masculine plural quanti, feminine plural quante)

1. how much, how many, however much, however many

   Quanti meccanici stanno lavorano adesso? ― How many mechanics are working now?

   Quanto latte serve? ― How much milk is needed?

   Quanta torta vuoi? ― How much cake do you want?

Pronoun

quanto (feminine quanta, masculine plural quanti, feminine plural quante)

1. how much, how many, however much, however many

   Quanti stanno dormendo? ― How many (of them) are sleeping?

   [Di torta,] quanta ne vuoi? ― How much [cake] do you want? (literally, “[Of cake,] how much of it you want?”)

Pronoun

quanto

1. how much, however much

   Quanto costa? ― How much does it cost?

   Quant'è grosso il cane di Luca?

   How big is Luca's dog?

   (literally, “How much is Luca's dog big?”)

   Non so quant'è grosso.

   I don't know how big it is.

   (literally, “I don't know how much it is big.”)

   q.b.; quanto basta ― to taste (literally, “however much is enough”)

2. (by extension, exclamative) how ...! ... so much!

   Synonym: che (only with essere, different syntax)

   Quanto costa! ― It costs so must! (literally, “How much it costs!”)

   Quant'è carino! [=Che carino!; Che carino che è!]

   It's so cute!

   (literally, “How much it is cute!”)

3. what, that which, all that (See Usage notes.)

   Synonyms: ciò che, quello che

   Da quanto è stato comunicato, […] [=Da quanto comunicato, […] ] ― By what has been comunicated, […]

   Ti riferisco quanto mi hanno detto. ― I am going to tell you what they told me. (literally, “I refer to you that which they told me.”)

   a quanto pare; a quanto sembra ― apparently (literally, “by what it seems”)

4. (by extension, omitting the verb) it, all

   Questo è quanto. ― That's it. (literally, “This is that which [...]”)

Usage notes

• A passive, past tense verb used with quanto in the what (“that which”) sense may be replaced by a past participle, also with clitic particles attached to it: (see dovutogli, dettomi for quotations)

  quanto insegnatomi da loro [quanto mi è stato insegnato da loro]

  that which they taught me [that which was taught to me by them]

  (literally, “how much taught me by then”)

Adverb

quanto

1. how

   Non sai quanto grosso è [il cane di Luca]? ― You don't know how big it [Luca's dog] is?

   Non so quanto grosso è. ― I don't know how big it is.

2. (by extension, in rhetorical questions with essere) how ...! (to be) so ...! how ... is it?!

   Ma quanto bello è?! ― OMG, it is so beautiful! (literally, “But how beautiful is it?!”)

3. (Romanesco, dated) when

Conjunction

quanto

1. as much as

   Synonyms: tanto quanto (“just as much as”), come (“like; as”)

   Il mio cane è veloce quanto il tuo se non di più.

   My dog is as fast as yours if not faster.

   È famoso quanto lo sei tu.

   He is famous as much as you are.

   Sono triste quanto povero.

   I am sad as much as [I am] poor.

   La pasta non mi piace quanto mi piace la pizza.

   I don't like pasta as much as I like pizza.

   (literally, “The pasta is not pleasing to me as much as the pizza is pleasing to me.”)

2. (with tanto) as ... as ...

   un uomo tanto forte quanto sciocco

   a man as strong as [he is/was] foolish.

   (literally, “a man very strong how much foolish”)

Related terms

• in quanto
• in quanto a
• per quanto
• per quanto concerne
• per quanto riguarda
• quantità
• quanto a
• quanto basta, q.b.
• quanto ti pare, quanto Le pare
• quantomeno
• quantunque
• tanto quanto

Further reading

• quanto¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 2

Borrowed from New Latin quantum.

Noun

quanto m (plural quanti)

1. quantum

   Synonym: quantum

Related terms

• quantizzare (“to quantize”)

Further reading

• quanto² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Etymology

Adverbial ablative from quantus.

Adverb

quantō (not comparable)

1. (interrogative) by how much

   quantō diūtius abest? ― how much longer will he be away?

2. (comparative) by as much as, just as

   Synonym: quō (in quō... eō / hōc...)

   Coordinate term: tantō

   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 5.4.4:

     Quanto erat in dies gravior atque asperior oppugnatio, et maxime quod magna parte militum confecta vulneribus res ad paucitatem defensorum pervenerat, tanto crebriores litterae nuntiique ad Caesarem mittebantur; […]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Usage notes

• Used with comparatives or other words implying comparison.

Related terms

• aliquantō, aliquantum
• quantum

See also

• aliquantō
• multō
• nihilō
• nimiō
• nūllō
• paulō
• tantō

Adjective

quantō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of quantus

References

• “quanto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “quanto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "quanto", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “quanto”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Macanese

Alternative forms

• quánto

Etymology

From Portuguese quanto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkwan.tu/

Determiner

quanto

1. (interrogative) how much, how many (what number or quantity of)

   Quanto custâ?

   How much does it cost?

   Vôs têm quanto filo-filo?

   How many children do you have?

2. several, a few, some

   quanto cento ― several hundred

   Chomâ quanto cúli para cartá tudo ancuza

   Call a few coolies to carry everything

Particle

quanto

1. plural particle for determiners ending in -unga

   estunga quanto ― these

   acunga quanto ― those

   Estunga quanto casa sâm bem di feo

   These houses are very ugly

Usage notes

• Sometimes connected with a hyphen, i.e. estunga-quanto and acunga-quanto.

References

• https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm
• https://comotavai.com/2012/02/24/pronomes-demonstrativos/

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• quãto (obsolete, abbreviation)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese quanto, from Latin quantus (“how much; how many”). Doublet of quantum.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkʷɐ̃.tu/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈkʷɐ̃.tu/

• (Minho) IPA^(key): /ˈkɐ̃(n).tu/, /ˈkã(n).tu/

• Audio (Portugal (Porto)):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɐ̃tu
• Hyphenation: quan‧to

Preposition

quanto

1. as (to the same extent or degree that)

Derived terms

• quanto a

Determiner

quanto (feminine quanta, masculine plural quantos, feminine plural quantas)

1. (interrogative, relative) how much; how many (what number or quantity of)

   Quanto leite você bebeu?

   How much milk did you drink?

   Você pretendia comprar quantos ingressos mesmo?

   How many tickets were you planning to buy again?

2. (in exclamations) that’s so many (that’s very numerous; that’s a large number of)

   Quantas pessoas! Posso perder-me.

   So many people! I might get lost.

Pronoun

quanto (feminine quanta, masculine plural quantos, feminine plural quantas)

1. (interrogative) how much (what price)

   Você cobra quanto?

   How much do you charge?

   Quanto custa uma guitarra novinha?

   How much does a brand new guitar cost?

2. (relative) as much as

   Eu como quanto quiser.

   I eat as much as I want.

Derived terms

• o quanto antes
• quanto a
• quanto antes

Adverb

quanto

1. (interrogative, relative) how (to what degree)

   Synonym: quão

   Digam o quanto quente vocês querem a pizza.

   Tell me how hot you want your pizza.

Related terms

• quantia
• quântico
• quantidade
• quantificar
• quantitativo
• quantizar
• quantum

Further reading

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

Spanish

Etymology 1

Adjective

quanto (feminine quanta, masculine plural quantos, feminine plural quantas)

1. obsolete form of cuanto

Adverb

quanto

1. obsolete form of cuanto

Pronoun

quanto n (correlative of tanto)

1. obsolete form of cuanto

Etymology 2

Noun

quanto m (plural quantos)

1. rare form of cuanto (“quantum”)

Further reading

• Manuel Seco; Olimpia Andrés; Gabino Ramos (3 August 2023), “quanto”, in Diccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA [BBVA Foundation]