Definition of Conto

1. Noun. 1 conto equals 1,000 escudos in Portugal.

Generic synonyms: Portuguese Monetary Unit
Terms within: Escudo, Portuguese Escudo

Definition of Conto

1. a Portuguese money of account [n -TOS]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Conto

continuous tense
continuous time model
continuous tremor
continuous variable
continuous variables
continuously
continuously variable transmission
continuously variable transmissions
continuousness
continuum
continuum hypothesis
continuumlike
continuums
contline
contlines
conto (current term)
contoid
contoids
contone
contorno
contornos
contorsion
contorsional
contort
contorted
contortedly
contortedness
contorting
contortion
contortionate

Literary usage of Conto

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Life of Lorenzo de Medici, Called the Magnificent by William Roscoe, Thomas Roscoe (1847)
"... fate conto d' essere huomini, essendo garzoni, che così lo richiede lo stato vostro & il caso presente, & sopra tutto attendete a quello, ..."

2. Catalogue of the Spanish Library and of the Portuguese Books Bequeathed by by George Ticknor, James Lyman Whitney (1879)
"Ms. notf by Mr. Ti — Retratos de autores españoles sacados en fac-simile Asia. Barros, J. de, and conto, D. de. Asia. Dos feitos que os Portugueses ..."

3. Baccio Bandinelli and Art at the Medici Court: A Corpus of Early Modern Sources by Louis A. Waldman (2004)
"254:] Baccio scultore deve dare a dì 16 marzo per resto de altro conto tenuto sin a dì 16 marzo per resto de altro conto tenuto sin in questo dì in questo ..."

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