patamar

English

Alternative forms

• pattamar
• pattemar
• pattimar

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese patamar.

Noun

patamar (plural patamars)

1. (nautical) A sailing vessel resembling a grab, formerly used in the coasting trade of Bombay and Ceylon.

   Hypernym: dhow

   • 1832, David D'Beth Hillel, The Travels of Rabbi David D'Beth Hillel: From Jerusalem, Through Arabia, Koordistan, Part of Persia, and India to Madras, page 138:

     In may 1831, I proceeded from Bombay to Panoovellee in a small Patamar, I sailed in the afternoon and arrived there before day break, I paid for the whole Patamar five Rupees, but a boat usually sails every day from Bombay to Panoovellee at the cost of a quarter of a Rupee for each person, […]

Further reading

• patamar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “patamar”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɐ.tɐ.ˈmaɾ/
• Hyphenation: pa‧ta‧mar

Etymology 1

Unknown.

Noun

patamar m (plural es)

1. landing (top-most step of a staircase)
   • 1871, Machado de Assis, chapter II, in Almas agradecidas:

     Minutos depois, ouviu-se um rumor de cadeiras, e não tardou que viesse da sala do fundo um velho alto e empertigado, vestido com certo apuro, a quem o porteiro fez largos cumprimentos até o patamar da escada.

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   • 2010, Salvatore D’Onofrio, “Dante”, in Dicionário de Cultura Básica:

     Também o Purgatório se divide em nove partes: na base da montanha, o antipurgatório; ao longo da encosta, sete patamares, de forma circular, parecendo terraços; no topo, o paraíso terrestre.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (figurative) level, stage
   • 2015, José Manuel Moran, José Armando Valente, Educação a distância, Summus Editorial (→ISBN), Os processos de construçāo de conhecimento:

     Esse tipo de abstração, segundo Piaget (1995), engloba dois aspectos inseparáveis: um definido como reflexionamento, que consiste em projetar (como em um refletor) sobre um patamar superior aquilo que é extraído de um patamar inferior.

Etymology 2

From Konkani [Term?].

Noun

patamar m (plural es)

2. patamar (sailing vessel)

Descendants

• → English: patamar