Carioca
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English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Portuguese carioca.
Noun
[edit]Carioca (plural Cariocas)
- An inhabitant of Rio de Janeiro.
- 2008, Priscilla Goslin, How to Be a Carioca: The Alternative Guide for the Tourist in Rio, →ISBN, page 43:
- Needless to say, a true Carioca never makes mistakes when dealing with money.
- 2012, Katherine Losse, The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network, →ISBN:
- I was impassioned about this because my Portuguese professor at Johns Hopkins was a Carioca, or native of Rio de Janeiro, and the first thing she told us in class was that she was going to make us all Cariocas.
- 2017, Laura Spinney, Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World, →ISBN:
- Cariocas – as inhabitants of Rio are called – panicked, and the newspapers reported the deteriorating situation in the city.
Proper noun
[edit]Carioca
- The Carioca River, a river in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil.
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- en:Rivers in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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