bandeirante

See also: Bandeirante

English

Etymology

From Portuguese bandeirante, from bandeira (“flag”).

Noun

bandeirante (plural bandeirantes)

1. (historical) adventurers and slavers from São Paulo, who were responsible for exploring much of early colonial Brazil.
   • 2003, Peter Robb, A Death in Brazil, Bloomsbury, published 2005, page 14:

     Its tough and cruel settler bandeirantes were the first Europeans to penetrate Brazil's interior on their long slaving forays against the índios.

   • 2015 April 24, Bruce Douglas, “Brazil activists to walk 600 miles for 'free markets, lower taxes and privatisation'”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     On Friday afternoon, Santos and a few dozen other activists will set off from the Praça Panamericana in western São Paulo on a 1,000km (621-mile) walk to Brasília, the Brazilian capital, following one of the routes of the bandeirantes.

2. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) person who was born in the State of São Paulo, which is known as Bandeirante State

Portuguese

Etymology

Etymology tree

Old Galician-Portuguese bandeira

Portuguese bandeira

Proto-Indo-European *-onts

Latin -ns

Latin -āns

Old Galician-Portuguese -ante

Portuguese -ante

Portuguese bandeirante

From bandeira + -ante.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /bɐ̃.de(j)ˈɾɐ̃.t͡ʃi/ [bɐ̃.de(ɪ̯)ˈɾɐ̃.t͡ʃi]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɐ̃.dɐjˈɾɐ̃.tɨ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɐ̃.dɐjˈɾɐ̃.tɨ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɐ̃.dejˈɾɐ̃.tɨ/
  • (Central Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɐ̃.dejˈɾɐ̃.tɨ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɐ̃.deˈɾɐ̃.tɨ/

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ɐ̃tʃi, (Portugal) -ɐ̃tɨ
• Homophone: Bandeirante
• Hyphenation: ban‧dei‧ran‧te

Noun

bandeirante m (plural bandeirantes)

1. (historical) bandeirante

   Hypernym: sertanista

Derived terms

• Bandeirante
• Bandeirantes

Further reading

• “bandeirante”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “bandeirante”, in Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisboa: Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, 2001–2026
• “bandeirante”, in Dicionário Infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “bandeirante”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
• “bandeirante”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN