Etymograph

English

Paulistano

Paulistano comes from Portuguese paulistano ‘native or inhabitant of the city of São Paulo,…’, from paulista ‘relating to Saint Paul’, and ultimately from Latin paulus ‘little, small’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpaulus‘little, small’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEPaulu
  3. Old Galician-Portuguesec. 1100–1500Paulo
  4. Portuguesec. 1500–present(São) Paulo
  5. Portuguese, derivedc. 1500–presentpaulista‘relating to Saint Paul’
  6. Portuguese, derivedc. 1500–presentpaulistano‘native or inhabitant of the city of São Paulo, São Paulo state, Brazil’
  7. Englishearliest quotation 2020Paulistano

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpaulus‘little, small’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEPaulu
  3. Old Galician-Portuguesec. 1100–1500Paulo
  4. Portuguesec. 1500–present(São) Paulo
  5. Portuguese, derivedc. 1500–presentpaulista‘relating to Saint Paul’
  6. Portuguese, derivedc. 1500–presentpaulistano‘native or inhabitant of the city of São Paulo, São Paulo state, Brazil’
  7. Englishearliest quotation 2020Paulistano

Earliest quotation: 2020, N. K. Jemisin, The City We Became: “Paulistanos are infamous workaholics; other Brazilians joke about their…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- ‘few, little’

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Today it means

noun Someone from São Paulo, Brazil.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Latin paulus / Paulistano

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