patamar
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English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Portuguese patamar.[1]
Noun
[edit]patamar (plural patamars)
- (nautical) A sailing vessel resembling a grab, formerly used in the coasting trade of Bombay and Ceylon (now Sri Lanka).
- Hypernym: dhow
- 1832, David D'Beth Hillel, The Travels of Rabbi David D'Beth Hillel: From Jerusalem, Through Arabia, Koordistan, Part of Persia, and India to Madras, page 138:
- In may 1831, I proceeded from Bombay to Panoovellee in a small Patamar, I sailed in the afternoon and arrived there before day break, I paid for the whole Patamar five Rupees, but a boat usually sails every day from Bombay to Panoovellee at the cost of a quarter of a Rupee for each person, […]
- (India, historical) A courier or messenger travelling on foot.
References
[edit]- ^ “pattamar”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “patamar”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Further reading
[edit]Portuguese
[edit]Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: pa‧ta‧mar
Etymology 1
[edit]Unknown.
Noun
[edit]patamar m (plural patamares)
- landing (top-most step of a staircase)
- 1871, Machado de Assis, chapter II, in Almas agradecidas:
- Minutos depois, ouviu-se um rumor de cadeiras, e não tardou que viesse da sala do fundo um velho alto e empertigado, vestido com certo apuro, a quem o porteiro fez largos cumprimentos até o patamar da escada.
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- 2010, Salvatore D’Onofrio, “Dante”, in Dicionário de Cultura Básica:
- Também o Purgatório se divide em nove partes: na base da montanha, o antipurgatório; ao longo da encosta, sete patamares, de forma circular, parecendo terraços; no topo, o paraíso terrestre.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (figurative) level, stage
- 2015, José Manuel Moran, José Armando Valente, Educação a distância, Summus Editorial (→ISBN), Os processos de construçāo de conhecimento:
- Esse tipo de abstração, segundo Piaget (1995), engloba dois aspectos inseparáveis: um definido como reflexionamento, que consiste em projetar (como em um refletor) sobre um patamar superior aquilo que é extraído de um patamar inferior.
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- 2015, José Manuel Moran, José Armando Valente, Educação a distância, Summus Editorial (→ISBN), Os processos de construçāo de conhecimento:
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]patamar m (plural patamares)
- patamar (sailing vessel)
Descendants
[edit]- → English: patamar
References
[edit]- ^ “patamar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
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