São Paulo

See also: Sao Paulo

English

Alternative forms

• Sao Paulo

São Paulo

Etymology

From Portuguese, named after Saint Paul. Doublet of Saint Paul. The city was originally named "São Paulo dos Campos de Piratininga" meaning "Saint Paul of the fields of Piratininga". "Piratininga" comes from Old Tupi pirá (“fish”) and Old Tupi tininga (“to dry”) meaning "dried fish", after the fish that would be stranded on the shore of the Tietê River after a flood and left to dry out.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌsaʊ ˈpaʊ.loʊ/

Proper noun

São Paulo

1. A state of the Southeast Region, Brazil. Capital: São Paulo.
2. A municipality, the state capital of São Paulo, Brazil.

Related terms

• Paulistano
• Saint Paul
• São Paulo caecilian

Translations

city and state

• Arabic: سَاو بَاوْلُو‎ m (saw bāwlū)

  Hijazi Arabic: سَاو پاوْلُو‎ f (sāw pāwlu), سَاو بَاوْلُو‎ f (sāw bāwlu)

• Azerbaijani: San Paulo
• Catalan: São Paulo
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 聖保羅 (zh), 圣保罗 (zh) (Shèng-Bǎoluó)

• Corsican: San Paulu
• Dutch: São Paulo (nl)
• Esperanto: San-Paŭlo
• Finnish: São Paulo (fi)
• French: São Paulo (fr) m, Saint-Paul (fr) m
• Georgian: სან-პაულუ (san-ṗaulu)
• German: São Paulo (de), Sankt Paulus
• Greek: Σάο Πάολο n (Sáo Páolo), Σάο Πάουλο n (Sáo Páoulo)
• Hawaiian: San Paulu
• Hebrew: סאו פאולו‎ ?

• Hindi: साओ पाउलो ? (sāo pāulo)
• Italian: San Paolo (it) f
• Japanese: サンパウロ (ja) (Sanpauro), サン・パウロ (San Pauro)
• Korean: 상파울루 (Sangpaullu)
• Latin: Sanctus Paulus
• Macedonian: Са́о Па́оло ? (Sáo Páolo)
• Marathi: साओ पाउलो n (sāo pāulo)
• Portuguese: São Paulo (pt)
• Russian: Сан-Па́улу (ru) m (San-Páulu)
• Sardinian: Santu Paulu m, São Paulo m
• Sicilian: San Paulu
• Spanish: San Pablo (es), São Paulo (es), Sao Paulo (es)
• Thai: เซาเปาลู (sao bpao loo)
• Turkish: São Paulo

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French

Etymology

From Portuguese, named after Saint Paul.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.o po.lo/

Proper noun

São Paulo m

1. São Paulo (a state of the Southeast Region, Brazil)
2. São Paulo (a municipality, the state capital of São Paulo, Brazil)
   • 1955, Claude Lévi-Strauss, chapter XI, in Tristes Tropiques, Plon, published 1993, →ISBN, page 108; republished as John & Doreen Weightman, transl., Tristes Tropiques, Penguin, 2011, →ISBN:

     Et pourtant São Paulo ne m'a jamais paru laide : c'était une ville sauvage comme le sont toutes les villes américaines, à l'exception peut-être de Washington, D.C., [...]

     — And yet I never thought that São Paulo was ugly: it was a‘wild’ town, as are all American towns, with the possible exception of Washington, D.C., [...]

See also

• pauliste, Pauliste

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Portuguese

Etymology

Portuguese for Saint Paul.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɐ̃w̃ ˈpaw.lu/, [ˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃ ˈpaʊ̯.lu]

• Audio (BR)

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Proper noun

São Paulo m

2. Paul the Apostle, Paul of Tarsus, Saint Paul

Proper noun

São Paulo f

2. São Paulo (a municipality, the state capital of São Paulo, Brazil)

   Synonym: Sampa (nickname)

4. São Paulo (a state of the Southeast Region, Brazil)

   Synonym: SP (abbreviation)

Related terms

• paulistano (demonym of city)
• paulista (demonym of state)

Usage notes

The term is articleless, and its gender is only demonstrated in adjectives. Therefore the phrases "o São Paulo" and "a São Paulo" do not exist.