🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

pedaço

Pronunciation / Transliteration: pedaco

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Bit/bɪt/
nounverbCEFR A1 (Beginner)Top #250 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"Eu gostaria de um pedaço de bolo."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A small piece, part, or quantity of something.

    "Could you please give me a bit of sugar for my tea?"
  2. 2

    The smallest unit of data in a computer, represented as a 0 or 1.

    "A single byte consists of eight bits of digital information."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Old English 'bita', meaning 'a piece, morsel, or bite', from the Proto-Germanic root *bitaną (to bite). Historically evolved to encompass various small portions or increments, and later adopted in telecommunications and computing as a portmanteau of 'binary digit'.

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