Abaetetuba
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Portuguese Abaetetuba.
Proper noun
[edit]Abaetetuba
Translations
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Portuguese
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Etymology
[edit]The city was originally named Abaeté, ultimately from Old Tupi abaeté (“honorable man”). In 1943, the name was changed by the adition of tyba to avoid confusion with a homonymous city, thus creating the new compound abaetetyba (“honorable men gathering”).[1][2]
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ubɐ
- Hyphenation: A‧ba‧e‧te‧tu‧ba
Proper noun
[edit]Abaetetuba
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “Abaetetuba”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 541, column 1
- ^ “Abaetetuba”, in Cidades@ (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: IBGE, 2023
Categories:
- English terms borrowed from Portuguese
- English terms derived from Portuguese
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- en:Cities in Pará, Brazil
- en:Cities in Brazil
- en:Places in Pará, Brazil
- en:Places in Brazil
- Portuguese terms derived from Old Tupi
- Portuguese 6-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ubɐ
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ubɐ/6 syllables
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese proper nouns
- pt:Cities in Pará, Brazil
- pt:Cities in Brazil
- pt:Places in Pará, Brazil
- pt:Places in Brazil