pantanal

See also: Pantanal

English

Etymology

Portuguese pantanal, in Bolivia and Paraguay probably via Spanish.

Pronunciation

• like Pantanal

Noun

pantanal (plural pantanals)

1. A marsh (a broad, flat area with pools of water and trees) in the Pantanal region of South America.
   • 1878, Otto Wilhelm Thomé, Alfred William Bennett, Text-book of Structural and Physiological Botany, page 453:

     To the west the savannahs extend as far as the affluents of the Paraguay and Madeira. Here, as on the coast, we come again to primeval forests, the 'pantanals,' of a tropical luxuriance, which, like the forests of Hylæa, owe their peculiarities to running water. To the south of these the plains of Gran-Chaco, and the woody highland of Paraguay, alternating with open grass […]

   • 1912, Bashford Dean, Edmund Otis Hovey, Fritz Felix Hahn, George Herbert Girty, John Diederich Haseman, Neil E. Stevens, R. D. O. Johnson, Thomas Hunt Morgan, Vernon Freeman Marsters, William King Gregory, Hubert Dana Goodale, Notes on the Principles of Quadrupedal Locomotion and of the Mechanism of the Limbs in Hoofed Animals, page 73:

     Lepidosiren lives in the vast swamps (chacos and pantanals) of Rio Paraguay and Rio Amazonas.

   • 1916, Theodore Roosevelt, A Book-lover's Holidays in the Open, page 154:

     The land is largely composed of the pantanals, the flat, wide-stretching marshes through which the Paraguay and its affluents wind. Where the land is low it is covered with papyrus and water-grass; if a few feet higher , with open palm forest.

   • 1993, Brazilian Communication Research Yearbook, page 48:

     Besides this, tourists are fascinated by the magic, enchantment and legends of the forests and pantanals and the natives are best indicated to narrate these stories in the authentic tone, suspense and mystery of the region.

   • 2008, Neotropical Ichthyology: Official Journal of the Sociedade Brasileira de Ictiologia:

     Diet seasonality and food overlap of the fish assemblage in a pantanal pond / Gisele Caroline Novakowski, Norma Segatti Hahn & Rosemara Fugi.

   • 2014 June 2, Richard William Stoker, Bats of Prey, Balboa Press, →ISBN, page 497:

     […] sturdy bridges. Because of the Pantanals, there were no side roads and the bends were mostly gradual with no sharp turns. When confronted with oncoming traffic, unlike Robyn, Maxine planted her foot […]

Portuguese

Etymology

From pântano +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /pɐ̃.taˈnaw/ [pɐ̃.taˈnaʊ̯]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /pɐ̃.tɐˈnal/ [pɐ̃.tɐˈnaɫ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /pɐ̃.tɐˈnal/ [pɐ̃.tɐˈnaɫ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /pɐ̃.tɐˈna.li/

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -aw, (Portugal) -al
• Hyphenation: pan‧ta‧nal

Noun

pantanal m (plural pantanais)

1. swamp, marsh, wetland

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pântano

Further reading

• “pantanal”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
• “pantanal”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
• “pantanal”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
• “pantanal”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Spanish

Noun

pantanal m (plural pantanales)

1. swamp, marshland, wetland

Further reading

• “pantanal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28