melhor

• milhor

From Old Occitan melhor, from Latin melior, meliōrem.

melhor f (feminine singular melhora, masculine plural melhors, feminine plural melhoras)

1. better

• melhorar

From Latin melior, meliōrem.

melhor m or f

1. best

• Catalan: millor
• Occitan: melhor, milhor

• von Wartburg, Walther (1928-2002), “melior”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 61, page 664

• mió (eye dialect, Caipira)
• mior (eye dialect, Caipira)
• milhor (obsolete)

From Old Portuguese mellor, from Latin melior, meliōrem, from Proto-Indo-European *mélyōs, from *mel- (“strong, big”).

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /mɨ.ˈʎɔɾ/
• (Nordestino) IPA^(key): /mɛ.ˈʎɔ(h)/, /mi.ˈʎɔ/
• (Paulista) IPA^(key): /me.ˈʎɔɾ/, /me.ˈʎɔɹ/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /me.ˈʎɔɾ/, /me.ˈʎɔɻ/
• Hyphenation: me‧lhor
• Rhymes: -ɔɾ

melhor m or f (plural melhores, comparable)

1. comparative degree of bom: better, best (with definite article)

• For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:melhor.

melhor

1. comparative degree of bem: better

• For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:melhor.