English
Itaboraian
Itaboraian comes from Portuguese Itaboraí.
- Portuguesec. 1500–presentItaboraí
- Englishearliest quotation 2012Itaboraian
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Portuguesec. 1500–presentItaboraí
- Englishearliest quotation 2012Itaboraian
Earliest quotation: 2012, John J. Flynn, Cenozoic Andean Faunas: “Carodnia is known only from the Itaboraian in both…”
Every English word from Portuguese Itaboraí
Today it means
name A geologic age, 53.0–50.0 mya and within the Ypresian (Early Eocene), whose stratotype is the Itaboraí Formation; used especially in the context of South American land mammal age (SALMA) classification.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Portuguese Itaboraí / Itaboraian