São Paulo

• Sao Paulo

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 Tupi pirá (“fish”) and Old Tupi tininga (“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.

• IPA^(key): /ˌsaʊ ˈpaʊ.loʊ/

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São Paulo

2. A state of the Southeast Region, Brazil. Capital: São Paulo.
4. A municipality, the state capital of São Paulo, Brazil.

• Paulistano
• Saint Paul
• São Paulo caecilian

• Category:São Paulo on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• São Paulo on Wikivoyage.Wikivoyage
• São Paulo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Borrowed from Portuguese, named after Saint Paul.

• IPA^(key): /sa.o po.lo/

São Paulo m

1. São Paulo (a state of the Southeast Region, Brazil)
2. São Paulo (a municipality, the state capital of São Paulo, Brazil)
   • 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., [...]

• pauliste, Pauliste

• Sao Paulo

• IPA^(key): /saʊ̯ ˈpaʊ̯lo/, /ˌsaːo .../, /z-/

São Paulo n (proper noun, genitive São Paulos or (optionally with an article) São Paulo)

1. São Paulo (a city in Brazil)

Unadapted borrowing from Portuguese São Paulo, named after Christian apostle Saint Paul.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsa.ɔ ˈpaw.lɔ/
• Syllabification: Sa‧o Pau‧lo

São Paulo n (indeclinable)

1. São Paulo (a municipality, the state capital of São Paulo, Brazil)
2. São Paulo (a state of the Southeast Region, Brazil)

• São Paulo in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• São Paulo in PWN's encyclopedia

Portuguese form of Saint Paul.

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São Paulo m

2. Paul the Apostle, Paul of Tarsus, Saint Paul
3. São Paulo (a state of the Southeast Region, Brazil)

   Synonym: (Brazil, abbreviation) SP

São Paulo f

1. São Paulo (a municipality, the state capital of São Paulo, Brazil)

   Synonym: (Brazil, nickname) Sampa

São Paulo is never indicated by an article; see usage notes for Portugal.

Borrowed from Portuguese São Paulo, named after Saint Paul.

São Paulo

1. São Paulo (a municipality, the state capital of São Paulo, Brazil)
2. São Paulo (a state of the Southeast Region, Brazil)