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From Portuguese, named after Saint Paul. Doublet of Saint Paul. The city was originally named "São Paulo dos Campos de Piratininga" meaning "Saint Paul of the fields of Piratininga". "Piratininga" comes from Old Tupipirá(“fish”) and Old Tupitininga(“to dry”) meaning "dried fish", after the fish that would be stranded on the shore of the Tietê River after a flood and left to dry out.
1955, Claude Lévi-Strauss, chapter XI, in Tristes Tropiques, Plon, published 1993, →ISBN, page 108; republished as John Weightman, Doreen Weightman, transl., Tristes Tropiques, Penguin, 2011, →ISBN:
Et pourtant São Paulo ne m’a jamais paru laide : c’était une ville sauvage comme le sont toutes les villes américaines, à l’exception peut-être de Washington, D.C., [...]
— And yet I never thought that São Paulo was ugly: it was a‘wild’ town, as are all American towns, with the possible exception of Washington, D.C.,