de quê in Portuguese

[Show JSON for postprocessed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▼] [Hide JSON for postprocessed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▲]

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "of what?"
      },
      "expansion": "“of what?”",
      "name": "m-g"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "of what?"
      },
      "expansion": "Literally, “of what?”",
      "name": "lit"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Literally, “of what?”, in reference to surnames that use the conjunction de.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "do quê",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "pt",
        "2": "phrase",
        "head": "de quê?"
      },
      "expansion": "de quê?",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Portuguese",
  "lang_code": "pt",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "54 46",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "51 49",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "64 36",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Portuguese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Meu nome é João.\nJoão de quê?\nMy name is John.\nJohn of what?",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "asking what is a person's surname"
      ],
      "id": "en-de_quê-pt-phrase-1BRdoptZ"
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "54 46",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "51 49",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see de, quê."
      ],
      "id": "en-de_quê-pt-phrase-jnHXpjOz",
      "links": [
        [
          "de",
          "de#Portuguese"
        ],
        [
          "quê",
          "quê#Portuguese"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "de quê"
}

[Show JSON for raw wiktextract data ▼] [Hide JSON for raw wiktextract data ▲]

{
  "categories": [
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Portuguese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Portuguese lemmas",
    "Portuguese multiword terms",
    "Portuguese phrases"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "of what?"
      },
      "expansion": "“of what?”",
      "name": "m-g"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "of what?"
      },
      "expansion": "Literally, “of what?”",
      "name": "lit"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Literally, “of what?”, in reference to surnames that use the conjunction de.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "do quê",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "pt",
        "2": "phrase",
        "head": "de quê?"
      },
      "expansion": "de quê?",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Portuguese",
  "lang_code": "pt",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Portuguese terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Meu nome é João.\nJoão de quê?\nMy name is John.\nJohn of what?",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "asking what is a person's surname"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see de, quê."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "de",
          "de#Portuguese"
        ],
        [
          "quê",
          "quê#Portuguese"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "de quê"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Portuguese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-03-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-03-02 using wiktextract (32c88e6 and 633533e). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.

"de quê" meaning in Portuguese

Phrase