literalmente
Galician
Etymology
Adverb
literalmente
Further reading
- “literalmente”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
Portuguese
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /li.teˌɾawˈmẽ.t͡ʃi/ [li.teˌɾaʊ̯ˈmẽ.t͡ʃi]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /li.teˌɾawˈmẽ.te/ [li.teˌɾaʊ̯ˈmẽ.te]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /li.tɨˌɾalˈmẽ.tɨ/ [li.tɨˌɾaɫˈmẽ.tɨ]
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /li.tɨˌɾa.liˈmẽ.tɨ/
- Rhymes: -ẽtɨ, -ẽt͡ʃi
- Hyphenation: li‧te‧ral‧men‧te
Adverb
literalmente
- literally, word for word
- (colloquial) literally (used to intensify or dramatize non-figurative statements)
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:literalmente.
Further reading
- “literalmente” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French littéralement. By surface analysis, literal + -mente.
Adverb
literalmente
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /liteˈɾalˌmente/ [li.t̪eˈɾalˌmẽn̪.t̪e]
- Rhymes: -ente
- Syllabification: li‧te‧ral‧men‧te
Adverb
literalmente
- literally
- Antonym: figurativamente
- verbatim
Further reading
- “literalmente”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024