Pindorama

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Etymology

First attested in 1897 in a text by Couto de Magalhães, and later repopularized by Oswald de Andrade in 1928, in the Anthropophagic Manifesto.

Magalhães claims this is the Tupian endonym for Brazil used in 1500, meaning "land of the palm trees", but presents no contemporary sources to his claim. If true, it's a misconstruction, as the proper form would be either Pindobetama or Pindoba retama.

Pronunciation

 
 

  • Rhymes: -ɐmɐ
  • Hyphenation: Pin‧do‧ra‧ma

Proper noun

Pindorama f

  1. (poetic) Brazil (A large Portuguese-speaking country in South America)
    • 1897 March 1, José Vieira Couto de Magalhães, “Pindorama é o nome americano do Brasil” (chapter 2), in Anchieta e as raças e linguas indigenas (7ª Conferencia para o Tricentenario de Anchieta), São Paulo: Typographia a Vapor Carlos Gerke & Cia., page 4:
      Estes conhecião o que chamamos hoje Brazil, do Amazonas até mais ou menos a bahia dos Patos, debaixo do nome de Pindorama, que quer dizer Região das Palmeiras; ao interior, não occupado por elles, denominavão Tapuirama, que quer dizer região de ranchos ou de aldeas.
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    • 1928 May, Oswald de Andrade, “Manifesto Antropofago”, in Revista de Antropofagia, volume 1, number 1, São Paulo, page 7, column 2:
      Contra a realidade social, vestida e oppressora, cadastrada por Freud — a realidade sem complexos, sem loucura, sem prostituições e sem penitenciarias do matriarcado de Pindorama.
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  2. A municipality of São Paulo, Brazil

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Guaraní: Pindoráma