Almazonas

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aw.maˈzõ.nɐs/ [aʊ̯.maˈzõ.nɐs]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aw.maˈzõ.nɐs/ [aʊ̯.maˈzõ.nɐs]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /aw.maˈzõ.nɐʃ/ [aʊ̯.maˈzõ.nɐʃ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /aw.maˈzo.nas/ [aʊ̯.maˈzo.nas]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /al.mɐˈzo.nɐʃ/ [aɫ.mɐˈzo.nɐʃ]

Proper noun

Almazonas f pl (plural only)

1. obsolete form of Amazonas
   • 1663, Simão de Vasconcellos, Chronica da Companhia de Jesu do Estado do Brasil [Chronicle of the State of Brazil's Society of Jesus], Noticias antecedentes (book I), Lisbon: Henrique Valente de Oliveira, page 18, column 2, line 23:

     O das Almazonas, por outro nome Graõ Pará, ſem exageraçaõ algũa, he o Emperador de todos os rios do mũdo […]

     The Amazon [literally, “the [river] of the Amazons”], also called Grão-Pará, with no exaggeration, is the emperor of all the world's rivers.