reinol

Portuguese

Alternative forms

reinól (obsolete)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ-

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs

Proto-Italic *rēks

Latin rēx

Latin rēgnum

Old Galician-Portuguese reino

Portuguese reino

Portuguese -ol

Portuguese reinol

From reino (“kingdom”) + -ol.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁejˈnɔw/ [heɪ̯ˈnɔʊ̯]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ʁejˈnɔw/ [χeɪ̯ˈnɔʊ̯]

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʁɐjˈnɔl/ [ʁɐjˈnɔɫ]
- (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʁejˈnɔl/ [ʁejˈnɔɫ]
- (Central Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʁejˈnɔl/ [ʁejˈnɔɫ]
- (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʁeˈnɔ.li/

Rhymes: (Brazil) -ɔw, (Portugal) -ɔl
Hyphenation: rei‧nol

Adjective

reinol m or f (plural reinóis)

(archaic) related to a kingdom
Synonym: reinícola

Noun

reinol m (plural reinóis)

(Brazil, India, archaic) person born in Portugal
Coordinate term: mazombo

Hypernym: português
- 1907, Capistrano de Abreu, “Francezes e Espanhóes [Frenchmen and Spaniards]” (chapter VII), in Capitulos de Historia Colonial [Chapters of Colonianl History], 3rd edition, Rio de Janeiro: Sociedade Capistrano de Abreu, published 1934, page 79:
  O Portuguez vindo da terra, o reinol, julgava-se muito superior ao Portuguez nascido nestas paragens alongadas e barbaras; o Portuguez nascido no Brasil, o mazombo, sentia e reconhecia sua inferioridade.
  The Portuguese coming from [their native] land, the “reinol”, deemed themselves far superior than the Portuguese born in these elongated and barbarian whereabouts; the Portuguese born in Brazil, the “mazombo”, felt and recognized their inferiority.
- 1916, José Veríssimo, “A primitiva sociedade colonial [The primitive colonial society]” (chapter I), in Historia da Literatura Brasileira [History of Brazilian Literature], Rio de Janeiro: Livraria Francisco Alves & Cia, page 33:
  Ao contrario do que passou na America ingleza, exceptuando algum eclesiastico ou alto funcionario, quaso não veiu para o Brasil nenhum reinól instruido, e ainda incluindo estes pode dizer-se que no primeiro século da colonização não houve aqui algum representante da boa cultura européa dessa gloriosa éra.
  Unlike what happened in the English America, excepting some ecclesiastic or high[-ranking] employee, almost no educated Portuguese has came to Brazil, and even including those, one can say that in the first century of colonization there was no representative of the good European culture here during this glorious era.

Derived terms

Reinol