pindoba

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Old Tupi

Alternative forms

Etymology

    Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *pinoβ.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    pindoba (unpossessable)

    1. palm tree of the species Attalea oleifera
      Meronym: inaîá

    Derived terms

    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

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    Alternative forms

    Etymology

      Borrowed from Old Tupi pindoba.

      Pronunciation

       

      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
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