Plural of 'conto,' a historical unit of account or a large amount of money in Portuguese or Brazilian commerce.
From Portuguese 'conto,' derived from Latin 'computus' (count or calculation), via Old French 'conte'. The word reflects medieval trade and currency systems.
The word 'contos' appears in historical economic texts about Portuguese and Brazilian colonial trade—one conto equaled a million réis—and the term carries echoes of how language and economics are inseparably linked in different cultures and time periods.
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