pão de açúcar

Portuguese

Etymology

Literally, “sugar bread”.

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈpɐ̃w̃ d͡ʒi aˈsu.kɐʁ/ [ˈpɐ̃ʊ̯̃ d͡ʒi aˈsu.kɐh]
    • (São Paulo) IPA(key): /ˈpɐ̃w̃ d͡ʒi aˈsu.kɐɾ/ [ˈpɐ̃ʊ̯̃ d͡ʒi aˈsu.kɐɾ]
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ˈpɐ̃w̃ d͡ʒi aˈsu.kɐʁ/ [ˈpɐ̃ʊ̯̃ d͡ʒi aˈsu.kɐχ]
    • (Caipira) IPA(key): /ˈpɐ̃w̃ d͡ʒi aˈsu.kɐɻ/ [ˈpɐ̃ʊ̯̃ d͡ʒi aˈsu.kɐɻ]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈpɐ̃w̃ de aˈsu.kaʁ/ [ˈpɐ̃ʊ̯̃ de aˈsu.kah]
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈpɐ̃w̃ d‿ɐˈsu.kaɾ/

Noun

pão de açúcar m (plural pães de açúcar)

  1. (historical) sugar-loaf (block of refined sugar)
    • 1618, Ambrósio Fernandes Brandão [attributed], “Dialogo primeiro [First dialogue]”, in Diálogos das grandezas do Brasil [Dialogues of Brazil's greatnesses], Paraíba; republished by ABL, Rio de Janeiro: Officina Industrial Graphica, 1930, page 25:
      Essa opinião é nova, e como tal engano manifesto; porque quem vos amostrára, ha hoje trezentos annos, uma canna de que se faz o assucar, e vos dissera que daquella canna se havia de formar, com a industria humana, um pão de assucar tão fermoso como hoje o vemos, te-lo-ieis por cousa ridiculosa […]
      This is a new opinion, and as such a manifest mistake; because anyone who showed you, three hundred years ago, a cane that we make sugar from and told you that from that cane one could make, with human industry, a sugar-loaf as beautiful as we see today, you would think it was a ridiculous thing.
    • 1904 September, Alfredo de Carvalho, “Os Brazões d’Armas do Brasil Hollandez [The Dutch Brazil's Coats of Arms]”, in Revista do Instituto Archeologico e Geographico Pernambucano, volume XI, number 63, Recife: Jornal do Recife, page 577:
      […] a da Parahyba tinha pães de assucar, ou por que produzisse assucar muito bom e afamado, ou por que nesta capitania, depois que nos foi sugeita, a fabricação do assucar começasse a fazer-se em maior escala e o valor dos engenhos augmentasse.
      The Paraíba [captaincy] had sugar-loaves [on its coat of arms], either because it produced a lof of good and famous sugar, or because in this captaincy, past being under our control, the sugar production began to be made at a larger scale and the value of sugar mills became higher.

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