Caribe

See also: caribe and Ca-ri-bê

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Caribe.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈɾi.bi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈɾi.bi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈɾi.be/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kaˈɾi.bɨ/ [kaˈɾi.βɨ]

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ibi, (Portugal) -ibɨ
• Hyphenation: Ca‧ri‧be

Proper noun

Caribe m

1. Caribbean Sea (a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, between North and South America)

   Synonym: Mar do Caribe

2. Caribbean (a continental region centered on the Caribbean Sea, consisting of those countries located in the sea and in bordering areas of South America and Central America)

Synonyms

• Caraíbas (Portugal)

Derived terms

• caribenho

Spanish

Etymology

From a Taíno or Kalinago term corresponding to karifuna (“Kalinago person”) in modern Kalinago, a borrowing from a Cariban language, ultimately from Proto-Cariban *karipona (“person”). Compare Kari'na karìna (“Carib person”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈɾibe/ [kaˈɾi.β̞e]
• Rhymes: -ibe
• Syllabification: Ca‧ri‧be

Proper noun

Caribe m

1. Caribbean (a continental region centered on the Caribbean Sea, consisting of those countries located in the sea and in bordering areas of South America and Central America)

Derived terms

• flamenco del Caribe

Descendants

• Latin: Caribaeus

References

• Roberts, Edward A. (2014), A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN