menos

From Latin minus.

menos

1. less

   Esti pueblu ye menos guapu que'l to.

   This town is less nice than that one.

• más

From Latin minus, comparative of parum.

menos

1. less

From Old Portuguese menos, displacing collateral form mẽos, from Latin minus, neuter of minor (“lesser; smaller”), comparative of parvus (“small”).

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈme.nuʃ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈme.nus/, /ˈme.nuʃ/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈme.nos/

menos (not comparable)

1. less (in lower degree)

   Aqui é menos frio.

   Here is less cold.

   Se trabalhares menos, cansarás menos.

   If you work less, you will tire less.

• mais

menos

1. except; but

   Li todos, menos o último.

   I read all, except the last one.

2. (mathematics) minus (indicates subtraction)

   Três menos dois é um.

   Three minus two is one.

• (except): fora, exceto

menos m or f (plural menos)

1. fewer (a smaller number of), less (a smaller size or significance of)

   Menos pessoas correm.

   Fewer people run.

   Atirou com menos precisão.

   He shot with less precision.

Some use the incorrect feminine plural menas.

• mais

menos m (plural menos)

1. minus sign (the symbol −)

• sinal de menos

From Latin minus, comparative of parum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmenos/

menos

1. less
2. (often with definite article) least

• used in forming the comparative of adjectives.
• with the definite article, used in forming the superlative of adjectives.

• (less, least): más

menos (plural menos)

1. less, fewer
2. least, fewest

• más

menos

1. minus

   Dos menos uno son uno. ― Two minus one is one.

menos m (plural menos)

1. minus sign

• al menos
• a menos que
• cuanto menos
• echar de menos
• por lo menos
• más o menos
• menos mal
• menospreciar

• “menos” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.