tostão
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French teston, from Italian testone.
Pronunciation
[edit]
- Rhymes: -ɐ̃w̃
- Hyphenation: tos‧tão
Noun
[edit]tostão m (plural tostões)
- (historical) an old nickel coin
- (informal) an indeterminate amount of money (usually a small amount)
- Ele não tem um tostão. ― He doesn't have any money.
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “tostão”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), Porto: 7Graus, 2009–2024
- “tostão”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
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