Where does “Maracanaço” come from?

Maracanaço (English) comes from Portuguese Maracanaço, from Portuguese -aço, from Old Portuguese -aço, from Latin -āceus, from Latin -āx, from Latin -ium, from Latin -ius, from Proto-Italic -jōs — Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems.

Maracanaço (English): The final match (Uruguay 2 – Brazil 1) in the 1950 FIFA World Cup, remembered in Brazil as a painful defeat

Definitions

  1. The final match (Uruguay 2 – Brazil 1) in the 1950 FIFA World Cup, remembered in Brazil as a painful defeat

Ancestry of “Maracanaço”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1PortugueseMaracanaçoMaracanaço final match in the 1950 FIFA World Cup
2Portuguese-açoForming augmentatives; words expressing greatness...
3Old Portuguese-aço
4Latin-āceusaceous; resembling, having the nature of, forming, belonging to
5Latin-āxish, -y
6Latin-iumSuffix used to form abstract nouns, sometimes...
7Latin-iusforming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter...
8Proto-Italic-jōsForms comparative adjectives
9Proto-Indo-European-yósCreates adjectives from noun or verb stems
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -yósEvery word from Latin -iumEvery word from Latin -ius