carioca

From Portuguese carioca.

carioca (plural cariocas)

1. A sideways step in which one leg crosses over the other.
   • 1982, Arthur J. Helfet, Disorders of the knee, page 388:

     In the final phase, the athlete works in non-cleated shoes on starts, stops, jumps, rounded side-step cuts, and crossover cuts, advancing to hard 90° cuts, and running tighter and tighter figures-of-eight. Defensive backs run sideways and backward and perform carioca (crossover) steps.

   • 2006, Michael L. Voight, Barbara J. Hoogenboom, William E. Prentice, Musculoskeletal Interventions: Techniques for Therapeutic Exercise, →ISBN:

     These included the cocontraction maneuver (a shuffling maneuver around a semicircle while tethered to surgical tubing), a carioca (crossover stepping), and a shuttle run (an acceleration and deceleration test).

   • 2007, Walter R. Frontera, Clinical Sports Medicine: Medical Management and Rehabilitation, →ISBN:

     Leg press, squat, circle running, figure eights, single-leg hops, vertical jumps, lateral bounds, one-legged long jumps, and carioca (crossover walking) are some examples.

2. Alternative form of Carioca
   • 2010, Ruy Castro, Rio de Janeiro: Carnival under Fire, →ISBN:

     But, for someone looking at it objectively, the relationship is a deceptive one – because at the same time as cariocas can't be seen working (shut up as they are in offices, government institutions and commercial establishments), everyone can see cariocas not working.

   • 2011, Robert Minhinnick, The Keys of Babylon, →ISBN:

     Or he might go to Rio. Rio with its white sand. He knew a rhyme about Rio, its thieving cariocas who wore sparkling wedding dresses.

   • 2012, Ade Asefeso, CEO Guide to Doing Business in Brazil, →ISBN:

     Even though cariocas are very professional they tend to be more laid back and easy going than business people from Sao Paulo. You can notice this as soon as you talk to a carioca.

From Portuguese carioca.

• IPA^(key): /kaˈɾjɔka/
• Rhymes: -ɔka
• Hyphenation: ca‧rio‧ca

carioca m or f (plural cariocas)

1. of, from or relating to the city of Rio de Janeiro

carioca m or f by sense (plural cariocas)

1. an inhabitant of the city of Rio de Janeiro

carioca f (plural cariocas)

1. young or immature hake (Merluccius merluccius)

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “carioca”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “carioca”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “carioca”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese carioca, itself a borrowing from Guaraní/Old Tupi.

• IPA^(key): /kaˈrjɔ.ka/
• Rhymes: -ɔka
• Hyphenation: ca‧riò‧ca

carioca (invariable)

1. Carioca (of, from or relating to Rio de Janeiro)

   Synonym: fluminense

carioca m or f by sense (invariable)

1. Carioca (native or inhabitant of Rio de Janeiro)
2. (feminine) carioca (dance)

• carioca in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• acciaro, accorai, arcaico, caciaro, cariaco, coracia

From Old Tupi Kariîooka, a former indigenous village in what is now Guanabara Bay.^[1]

• Audio (São Paulo):

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• Rhymes: -ɔkɐ
• Hyphenation: ca‧ri‧o‧ca
• Homophone: Carioca

carioca m or f by sense (plural cariocas)

1. Carioca (inhabitant of Rio de Janeiro city)

   Os cariocas apreciam a praia de Copacabana.

   The inhabitants of Rio enjoy the beach of Copacabana.

2. (proscribed) native or inhabitant of Rio de Janeiro state

   Synonym: fluminense

• → English: Carioca

carioca m (plural cariocas)

1. weak coffee (with added hot water or from a second shot of spent espresso)

carioca m or f (plural cariocas)

1. of, from or relating to Rio de Janeiro city
2. (proscribed) of, from or relating to Rio de Janeiro state

   Synonym: fluminense

• IPA^(key): /kaˈɾjoka/
• Rhymes: -oka
• Syllabification: ca‧rio‧ca

carioca m or f (masculine and feminine plural cariocas)

1. of, from or relating to Rio de Janeiro (city in Brazil)
2. (Chile, Argentina, Uruguay) of Brazil; Brazilian

carioca m or f by sense (plural cariocas)

1. Carioca (native or inhabitant of Rio de Janeiro (city in Brazil))
2. (Chile, Argentina, Uruguay) a Brazilian

• “carioca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10