pindoba

See also: Pindoba

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

• pindó (rare)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *pinoβ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pĩˈⁿdɔβa/

Noun

pindoba (unpossessable)

1. palm tree of the species Attalea oleifera

   Meronym: inaîá

Derived terms

• pindobusu
• Pindotyba

Descendants

• Nheengatu: pindawa
• → Portuguese: pindoba, pindova

References

• Gabriel Soares de Sousa (1587) chapter LV, in Noticia do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese), Salvador; republished as Francisco Adolpho de Varnhagen, editor, Tratado descriptivo do Brazil em 1587, Rio de Janeiro: Laemmert, 1851, page 189: “pindoba”
• Claude d'Abbeville (1614) chapter X, in Hiſtoire de la Miſsion des Peres Capucins en L’Iſle de Maragnan et terres circonuoiſines [History of the Mission of the Capuchin Fathers in the Island of Maranhão and surrounding lands] (overall work in French), Paris: Imprimerie de François Huby, page 66: “pindo [pindó]”
• anonymous author (1622) “Palma ou palmeira não tem genero”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica (overall work in Portuguese), Piratininga; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, volume 2, São Paulo: USP, 1953, page 63: “Pindoba”
• Georg Marcgrave, Willem Piso (1648) Historia Naturalis Brasiliae [Brazilian Natural History], Historiae Plantarum, book III, chapter XVIII (overall work in Latin), Amsterdam: Elzevir, page 133: “Pindoba”
• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “pindoba”, 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 383, column 2

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• pindova

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Tupi pindoba.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /pĩˈdɔ.bɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /pĩˈdɔ.bɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /pĩˈdɔ.ba/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /pĩˈdɔ.bɐ/ [pĩˈdɔ.βɐ]

• Rhymes: -ɔbɐ
• Hyphenation: pin‧do‧ba
• Homophone: Pindoba

Noun

pindoba f (plural pindobas) (Brazil)

1. Attalea oleifera, a variety of cocosoid palm tree endemic to Brazil
2. (by extension) any palm tree in the genus Attalea