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163 months ago

Barbara Cochran (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:

Portuguese > English

Subject:

Technical / Engineering

Level of diffculty:

Easy / medium

Word or term in question:

ar soturno e mono

Context:

Vinha todo vestido de negro, com um ar soturno e mono.

Keywords:

Description of Edgar Allan's appearance as he comes onto the stage at Columbia University to give a reading of his poem, "The Raven."

 

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163 months ago

airmailrpl  See profile wrote:

sullen and monotonous

My comment:

ar soturno e mono => sullen and monotonous

My references:

mono-
(grego mónos, -e, -on, único)
elem. de comp.
Exprime a noção de um, um só, unidade (ex.: monocelular, monorrima).



mono |ô|
(origem duvidosa)
s. m.
1. Macaco; bugio.
2. [Figurado] Indivíduo feio, macambúzio, estúpido ou bisonho.
3. Mercadoria sem venda no comércio.
4. Coisa ou edifício demasiado grande, disforme ou mal executado.
5. [Portugal] Objecto doméstico (colchão, electrodoméstico, móvel, etc.), geralmente pesado ou de grandes dimensões, cuja remoção da via pública implica meios diferentes dos da habitual recolha de lixo. = MONSTRO
6. Boneco de trapos.
7. [Informal] Burla, fraude, calote.
adj.
8. Relativo a macaco.
9. Sensaborão, macambúzio; pouco falador.
Plural: monos |ô|.

sensabor |ô|
adj. 2 g.
1. Que não tem sabor; insípido; monótono; desengraçado.
s. m.
2. Dissabor.
s. 2 g.
3. Pessoa desengraçada. (Em Portugal, também sem-sabor.)

163 months ago

airmailrpl  See profile wrote:

with a sad and gloomy look

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