🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

ligeiro

Pronunciation / Transliteration: liˈʒeɾu

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Slight/slaɪt/
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"Havia uma ligeira chance de chuva hoje."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Small in degree; not considerable.

    "There was a slight chance of rain today."
As noun
  1. 1

    An act of disrespect or discourtesy.

    "He took her absence as a slight against him."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The word 'slight' originates from Middle English 'slight', derived from Old Norse 'slægr', meaning 'slender' or 'weak'. Over time, it evolved to describe something that is small in degree or amount.

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