açoreano

Portuguese

Adjective

açoreano (feminine açoreana, masculine plural açoreanos, feminine plural açoreanas, not comparable)

  1. pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal) of açoriano; now a common misspelling

Noun

açoreano m (plural açoreanos, feminine açoreana, feminine plural açoreanas)

  1. pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal) of açoriano; now a common misspelling

Usage notes

This misspelling, like acreano, was widely utilized prior to the first spelling reforms of Portuguese and stems from a misinterpretation of the word as being suffixed with -ano instead of -iano. The former suffix is found in words such as coreano, which preserve a stressed e; meanwhile, words with an unstressed, final e take -iano, which replaces the e with an i: compare saussuriano, machadiano, sofocoliano.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ “O gentílico acriano (Acre, Brasil)” in Ciberdúvidas da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese)
  2. ^ “A grafia de açoriano” in Ciberdúvidas da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese)
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