Where does “Pará” come from?
Pará (Portuguese) comes from Portuguese Pera, from Portuguese espera, from Portuguese esperar, from Old Portuguese asperar, from Old Spanish esperar, from Latin spērō, from Latin spes, from Proto-Italic spēs — to succeed, to prosper.
Pará (Portuguese): a state in the North Region of Brazil
Definitions
- a state in the North Region of Brazil
Ancestry of “Pará”, step by step
Pará traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Portuguese Pera
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Portuguese | Pera | pear |
| 2 | Portuguese | espera | wait |
| 3 | Portuguese | esperar | to wait; to hope; to expect; to anticipate |
| 4 | Old Portuguese | asperar | — |
| 5 | Old Spanish | esperar | to wait for, await |
| 6 | Latin | spērō | to hope, expect |
| 7 | Latin | spes | hope; expectation, anticipation, apprehension |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | spēs | hope |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | spéh₁s | prosperity, success |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | speh₁- | to succeed, to prosper |