conton.
/ˈkɒntəʊ/ In Portuguese, a million; hence, short for a million reis, worth in Portuguese currency about £220, in Brazilian a little more than half that amount.
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1601 R. Hakluyt tr. A. Galvano Discov. World (1862) 14 He neuer..left off to raise and to augment the yerely rent vnto a counto.
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products A Portuguese word for million; a conto of reis (1000 milreis) is usually expressed thus 1000$000.
1889 Times (Weekly ed.) 13 Dec. 15/1 The sum of 5,000 contos (£550,000).
1890 Daily News 25 Jan. 5/5 The money being subscribed in Brazil. The capital is stated to be 200,000 contos of reis, or over 20 millions sterling.
1891 Sc. Leader 13 May 6 (Lisbon) 1200 contos of reis of new silver money coined in virtue of last Friday's decree.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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