pipoca

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Unknown. Sources are unanimous in mentioning a borrowing from Old Tupi pipoka,[1][2][3][4] from pira (“skin”) +‎ pok (“to crack”) +‎ -a,[5][6] but the word is unattested and there's no evidence of Tupian peoples making popcorn.

Pronunciation

 

  • Rhymes: -ɔkɐ
  • Hyphenation: pi‧po‧ca

Noun

pipoca f (plural pipocas, diminutive pipoquinha)

  1. popcorn
    • 1865, Bernardo Guimarães, “A orgia dos duendes”, in Poesias diversas, Rio de Janeiro: B. L. Garnier, page 269:
      Junto d’elle um vermelho diabo / Que sahíra do antro das phócas, / Pendurado n’um páo pelo rabo, / No borralho torrava pipócas.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    • 1875, José de Alencar, O Sertanejo, volume 2, Rio de Janeiro: B. L. Garnier, page 175:
      […] só tinha que não podia ver cabeção de cacondê que não ficasse logo como pipoca na frigideira!
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  2. small skin boil
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pústula
  3. tapeworm cyst embedded in meat
    Synonyms: canjica, canjiquinha, cisticerco, cisto, pipoquinha
  4. (Brazil, colloquial, pathology) avian pox (disease caused by Avipoxvirus)
    Synonyms: bouba aviária, caroço
  5. (Brazil) candelabra tree (Senna didymobotrya)
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Spanish: pipoca

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

pipoca

  1. inflection of pipocar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

References

  1. ^ “pipoca”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
  2. ^ “pipoca”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
  3. ^ “pipoca”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
  4. ^ “pipoca”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
  5. ^ Navarro, Eduardo de Almeida (2013), “pira”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil ] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 384, column 2
  6. ^ Avila, Marcel Twardowsky (2021), “pipuka”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, page 602

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese pipoca (“popcorn”).

Noun

pipoca f (plural pipocas)

  1. (Bolivia) popcorn
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:palomita

Further reading

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