abacaxi.
pineapple fruit
Meaning & usage
pineapple fruit
pineapple plant (Ananas comosus)
a certain fragrant, sweet cultivar of pineapple
a difficult situation
pineapple (hand grenade)
Where this word comes from
Unknown. Usage for the people (noun 2 sense 1) and the river (see Abacaxis) is attested earlier than the fruit (noun 1 sense 1), which is first mentioned in 1776; the ultimate origin and relation between these senses remains unclear. Several authors point to a supposed Old Tupi 'ybakatĩ /'ybakati (“fragrant fruit”), but this formation is unattested and involves an undocumented word katĩ /kati. One of the earliest mentions of this etymology is in Antônio Joaquim de Macedo Soares’s Portuguese dictionary, a likely source for later works. Navarro claims that the term originates from “some Cariban language”.
a member of a now extinct indigenous people that lived near the Abacaxis River, in the Amazon Rainforest
Where this word comes from
Unknown. Usage for the people (noun 2 sense 1) and the river (see Abacaxis) is attested earlier than the fruit (noun 1 sense 1), which is first mentioned in 1776; the ultimate origin and relation between these senses remains unclear. Several authors point to a supposed Old Tupi 'ybakatĩ /'ybakati (“fragrant fruit”), but this formation is unattested and involves an undocumented word katĩ /kati. One of the earliest mentions of this etymology is in Antônio Joaquim de Macedo Soares’s Portuguese dictionary, a likely source for later works. Navarro claims that the term originates from “some Cariban language”.
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