peró

See also: perro, pero, péro, and però

Old Tupi

Etymology

Etymology tree

Ancient Greek πέτρος (pétros)

Ancient Greek Πέτρος (Pétros)bor.

Latin Petrus

Old Galician-Portuguese Pedro

Portuguese Pedrobor.

Old Tupi Peró

Old Tupi peró

Nominalization of Peró (“Peter”). The name was so common in Portugal in the 16th century that it became a noun among the Tupi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pɛˈɾɔ]
• Rhymes: -ɔ
• Hyphenation: pe‧ró

Noun

peró (unpossessable)

1. (Late Tupi) Portuguese (person native to Portugal)

   Coordinate terms: see Thesaurus:abá

   • Hans Staden (1557) chapter XVIII, in Warhaftige [Hiſtoria und] beſchꝛeibung eyner Landtſchafft der wilden nacketen/grimmigen menſchfreſſer leuthen/in der newenwelt America gelegen, volume 1 (overall work in German), Marburg: Andreas Kolbe, unnumbered page: “perot [peró]”
   • Jean de Léry (1578) chapter XIII, in Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Bresil, autrement dite Amerique (overall work in Middle French), La Rochelle: Antoine Chuppin, page 197: “Peros [Peró]”
   • Georg Marcgrave, Willem Piso (1648) Historia Naturalis Brasiliae, Rerum Naturalium Historiae, book VIII, chapter IV (overall work in Latin), Amsterdam: Elzevir, page 268: “Pero [Peró]”

Portuguese

Conjunction

peró

1. Alternative form of pero