vulcão

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin Vulcanus (“Vulcan”); doublet of Vulcano; first attested in the 18th century.

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /vuwˈkɐ̃w̃/ [vuʊ̯ˈkɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
 

  • Rhymes: -ɐ̃w̃
  • Hyphenation: vul‧cão

Noun

vulcão m (plural vulcões or (nonstandard) vulcães or vulcãos)

  1. volcano
    • 1717, Antonio Cordeyro, “Dos incendios que ſuccedèraõ à Peſte [On the fires that followed the plague]” (chapter XI), in Historia insulana das ilhas a Portugal sugeytas no Oceano Occidental [Insular history of the islands subjected to Portugal on the Western Ocean], livro 5, Lisbon: Antonio Pedrozo Galram, page 161, line 89:
      Na Villa de Ribeyra Grande foraõ ainda mais tremendos os ſucceſſos, porque como a ſerra, ou monte de Vulcaõ, que he o mayor de toda a Ilha, inclina mais para Ribeyra Grande, do que para Villa Franca, & deſte Vulcaõ he que queria ſahir o fogo […]
      At the village of Ribeira Grande, success was even more tremendous, because since the sierra (or the volcano mount, which is the biggest one on the whole island) leans more toward Ribeira Grande than Vila Franca, and it was out of this volcano that fire wanted to come […]
    • 1815, M. Cuvier, “Mineralogia e Geologia [Mineralogy & Geology]”, Sciencias, in Solano Constâncio, editor, O Observador Lusitano em Pariz [The Lusitanian Observer at Paris], volume I, Paris: N. Rougeron, page 384:
      M. de Humboldt, socio estrangeiro, communicou a historia admiravel do volcão de Jorullo , que rompeo em 1759 no Mexico […]
      Monsieur von Humboldt, a foreigner associate, communicated the admirable history of the Jorullo volcano, which erupted in 1759 in Mexico […]

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