Meaning of conto | Babel Free

Definitions

1. tale, story
   masculine
2. gossip, hearsay
   masculine
3. matter, issue
   masculine
4. account, registry
   archaic, masculine
5. calculation, number, sum
   archaic, masculine
6. a million
   archaic, masculine
7. fine (fee levied as punishment for breaking a contract or the law)
   archaic, masculine
8. a large quantity
   masculine
9. twelve pairs of sheaves
   dated, masculine
10. forty Galician pounds of grain
    dated, masculine

Equivalents

Examples

“Et diz o conto que Telémacus fuy moy bõo caualeyro a marauilla et sesudo et dereyteyro.”

An the story says that Telemachus was a wondrous knight and intelligent and righteous

“Anque à prea non hègrande si ca si, ò sacristan disque à pestàna do figado se lle hiba alegrando já. Ô cont'hè, si enturra n'eso Deus me libre das suas más, que'anque eu non queira, na Coba de chantarme heche capàz.”

Although the booty is not large, yes and yes, the sacristan they say that his liver's eyes were brightening already. The issue is, if he persists, God save me from his hands, that even if I don't want, in the grave me he is capable of thusting me

“Aras Perez de Parrega que lles thomara seu aver de suas cassas de Mondim et de Carraszedo … et le britara seus contos et seus privilegios”

“1460, Rui Vasques, Crónica de Santa María de Íria, in Souto Cabo, José António (ed.) (2001): Crónica de Santa María de Íria. Estudo e edizón de ---. Santiago: Cabido da S.A.M.I. Catedral / Seminario de Estudos Galegos / Ediciós do Castro, page 110”

And there came many Moors, so many that they were uncountable [lit. "there was no number"], and they fought the king

“porque se derrocou hua ponte das grandes que en seus reynos auía, a qual era probeytosa á república de seus reynos, eno qual gastamos fasta hun conto et oyto çentos mill mrs”

because a bridge collapsed, one of the large ones in his realms and which was beneficial for the republic of his realms, and in which we spent up to a million and eight hundred thousand maravedis

“poso conto de cen mor. de la bona moneda en todos aquellos que enna iglesia nen ennos dezemos nen en los montes feziese forcia nen torto nen tallase nen entrasse los montes nen dellos nen da iglesia nen de suas cousas tomasse nenguna cousa contra uoluntade do chantres”

he established a fine of a hundred maravedis of good coin in anyone who, in the church or in the tithing or in the woods, would make force or wrong or cutting or entering the woods, or would took anything from them of from the churches against the will of the precentor

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