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"PAULO" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to be small", "humble". |
Date "PAULO" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
"PAULO" is a common misspelling or typo for: Paolo. |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Paulo The cardinal, brother of Count Guido Franceschini, who advised his scapegrace bankrupt brother to marry an heiress, in order to repair his fortune. (Robert Browning: The Ring and the Book.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Futurity | Adverb: prospectively, hereafter, in future; kal, tomorrow, the day after tomorrow; in course of time, in process of time, in the fullness of time; eventually, ultimately, sooner or later; proximo; paulo post futurum; in after time; one of these days; after a time, after a while. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: PAULO |
| Non-English Usage: "PAULO" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Latin (a little, a little bit, a small amount, a small extent, by a little, by only a small amount, little, little bit of, Paul, quanity, quantity, quantity of, short while, small, small amount, somewhat, trifle), Portuguese Brazilian (Paul, Paulo). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Carnaval São Paulo (1969) A Visita do Ministro Paulo Cunha aos Portugueses da Califórnia (1956) São Paulo de Luanda (1953) Sinfonia da Metrópole São Paulo (1929) Enquanto São Paulo Dorme (1929) | |
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Shows photo of Dr. Paulo Borges and woman assistant innoculate leukemia into mice at Jackson Memorial Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. | ![]() | [Sao Paulo, Brazil, Faculdade de Medicina]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. | |
![]() | [Escola Paulista de Medicina, Sao Paulo, Brazil]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ![]() | The ruined church of San Paulo, Macao, China. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Lights on night" by Diueine Da C. Monteiro Commentary: "23 de Maio avenue. São Paulo at night." | "Bela Cintra Street" by André Guergolet Commentary: "Bela Cintra Street, a street near Paulista Avenue at Sao Paulo, Brazil." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Some synonyms for Rocky Mountain spotted fever in other countries include tick typhus, Tobia fever (Columbia), São Paulo fever and fiebre maculosa (Brazil), and fiebre manchada (Mexico). (references) | |
Business | Delta & Continental Airlines are offering flights from Santiago de Chile (SGO), Rio de Janeiro (GIG), and Sao Paulo (GUA) in combination with other airlines. (references) | |
Children | Brazil | A study by the IGBE reported that 47 percent of Sao Paulo street children come from families that earn less than $200 (540 reais) per month. (references) |
Brazil | From February 1997 to August 2001, a Rio de Janeiro-based NGO hot line ABRAPIA received 2,118 complaints of sexual exploitation of children and adolescents nationwide, including 333 in Rio de Janeiro city and 156 in Sao Paulo city. (references) | |
Brazil | In 2000 a study in the city of Sao Paulo found 609 children living permanently on the street; a much greater number of children spend their days on the streets, but have families with whom they spend the night. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Brazil | In April students from the University of Sao Paulo claimed that police had injured about 100 persons while breaking up a demonstration against the Free Trade Area of the Americas. (references) |
Discrimination | Brazil | A prominent example of violence directed at homosexuals occurred in Sao Paulo in February 2000, when Edson Neris da Silva was beaten to death by a skinhead gang after having been seen holding hands with another man. (references) |
Brazil | The Gay Group of Bahia (GGB), the country's best known homosexual rights organization, and Amnesty International have documented the existence of skinhead, neo-Nazi, and "machista" gangs that attacked suspected homosexuals in cities including Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Salvador, Belo Horizonte, and Brasilia. (references) | |
Economic History | Brazil | This greatest expansion of hotels is taking place in Brazil's major centers, particularly in the city of Sao Paulo. (references) |
Brazil | The city of São Paulo hosts around 300 trade fairs per year. (references) | |
Chile | For example, cargo from south Brazil originating in the industrial area of Sao Paulo, or transferring from Santos can be transferred by surface to the ports of Arica or Antofagasta. (references) | |
Human Rights | Brazil | Minor riots at the end of 2000 continued into the beginning of the year and led to a massive rebellion in mid-February, coordinated by a powerful prison gang (First Capital Command), involving over 25,000 inmates in almost 30 prisons in Sao Paulo state. (references) |
Brazil | The Secretary of State for Human Rights Gilberto Saboia called on the Sao Paulo authorities to punish the guilty and to indemnify Puga, but there were no reports that such steps had been taken by year's end. (references) | |
Brazil | After violent riots at the Tatuape complex in November 1999, Sao Paulo Governor Mario Covas significantly increased FEBEM's budget and promised to build 20 new facilities. (references) | |
Minorities | Brazil | Adorno analyzed 500 criminal cases judged in Sao Paulo courts in 1990 and found that 60 percent of whites able to afford their own lawyers were acquitted, while only 27 percent of blacks who hired lawyers were found not guilty. (references) |
Brazil | In Sao Paulo human rights activists continued to express concern about discrimination against blacks and poor persons from the Northeast by neo-Nazi groups in the South. (references) | |
Brazil | In September 2000, a neo-Nazi group sent letters to two prominent Sao Paulo human rights commission members, Renato Simoes and Italo Cardoso, threatening to "exterminate" gays, Jews, blacks, and nordestinos (people from the impoverished Northeast), as well as those seeking to protect their rights. (references) | |
Political Economy | BRAZIL | Privatization revenues peaked in 1997-98, and the pace of privatization since then has slowed, although the government sold the Sao Paulo state bank Banespa for $3 billion in November 2000. The government had planned to privatize several electricity generation companies in 2001, but those plans have been placed on hold with the electricity crisis. (references) |
Trade | Argentina | The Executive Secretariat of the AMN is located in Sao Paulo. (references) |
Brazil | Further, OPIC is financing $61 million for a Hyatt Hotel in São Paulo. (references) | |
Travel | Brazil | In Rio call: 270-1442, in Sao Paulo call: 251-1733, in Brasilia call: 224-3030 or 224-7474, and in Belo Horizonte call: 464-3999. (references) |
Brazil | Also, in Sao Paulo and in Rio, taxi fares are comparable to large U.S. cities such as Washington D.C. (references) | |
Brazil | Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro are very confusing for a newcomer; driving is not recommended. (references) | |
Women | Brazil | A Ministry of Labor survey reported that the average starting salary for high-school-educated women in Sao Paulo was one-third less than the average starting salary for high school educated men. (references) |
Brazil | A 1999 study by an academic at the Catholic Pontifical University of Sao Paulo indicates that 70 percent of criminal complaints regarding domestic violence against women are suspended without a conclusion. (references) | |
Brazil | A national study of rape cases carried out by a group of Sao Paulo academics indicated that family members committed roughly 70 percent of rapes within their own homes. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Brazil | A 2000 study by DIEESE concluded that the minimum wage was only about one-fifth of the salary necessary to support a family of four in the Sao Paulo metropolitan area. (references) |
Brazil | The Northeast, Sao Paulo, Goias, and Rio de Janeiro are the primary sources of persons trafficked into Europe, Israel, Asia, and the United States. (references) | |
Brazil | During the investigation, federal police found evidence suggesting that the Japanese mafia was involved in trafficking other men and women to Japan from Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "PAULO" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "PAULO" is used about 176 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 176 | 23,410 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "PAULO" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Paulo | Last name | 300 | 23,510 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "PAULO" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to be small", "humble". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "PAULO." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Paula | Female | Ancient Roman | Paul |
| Boghos | Male | Armenian | Paul |
| Paul | Male | Biblical | N/A |
| Pavel | Male | Bulgarian | Paul |
| Pau | Male | Catalan | Paul |
| Havel | Male | Czech | Paul |
| Pavel | Male | Czech | Paul |
| Poul | Male | Danish | Paul |
| Paul | Male | English | N/A |
| Paula | Female | English | Paul |
| Pauletta | Female | English | Paul |
| Pachjo | Male | Esperanto | Paul |
| Paulo | Male | Esperanto | Paul |
| Paavali | Male | Finnish | Paul |
| Paavo | Male | Finnish | Paul |
| Pauli | Male | Finnish | Paul |
| Paul | Male | French | N/A |
| Paule | Female | French | Paul |
| Paulette | Female | French | Paul |
| Paul | Male | German | N/A |
| Paula | Female | German | Paul |
| Pavlos | Male | Greek | Paul |
| Pál | Male | Hungarian | Paul |
| Paula | Female | Hungarian | Paul |
| Pól | Male | Irish | Paul |
| Paola | Female | Italian | Paul |
| Paolo | Male | Italian | Paul |
| Paulino | Male | Italian | Paul |
| Pawel | Male | Polish | Paul |
| Paula | Female | Portuguese | Paul |
| Paulo | Male | Portuguese | Paul |
| Paul | Male | Romanian | N/A |
| Paula | Female | Romanian | Paul |
| Pavel | Male | Russian | Paul |
| Pàl | Male | Scottish | Paul |
| Pòl | Male | Scottish | Paul |
| Havel | Male | Slovak | Paul |
| Pavel | Male | Slovene | Paul |
| Pablo | Male | Spanish | Paul |
| Paola | Female | Spanish | Paul |
| Paula | Female | Spanish | Paul |
| Pål | Male | Swedish | Paul |
| Pavlo | Male | Ukrainian | Paul |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| Brazil | Anhembi Turismo e Eventos da Cidade de Sao Paulo |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "PAULO": Paulo Afonso ♦ Paulo Afonso Falls ♦ Sao Paulo. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "PAULO": Paulo-tarso. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "PAULO"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Portuguese Brazilian | paulo (Paul). (various references) | |
Russian | пауло. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Acts Chapter 19, Verse 30 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Tou de paulou boulomenou eiselqein eiV ton dhmon ouk eiwn auton oi maqhtai |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Paulo autem volente intrare in populum non permiserunt discipuli |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And whanne Poul would haue entrid in to the peple, the disciplis suffriden not. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | When Paul wolde have entred in vnto the people ye disciples suffered him not. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And when Paul would have entered in unto the people, the disciples suffered him not. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And when Paul would have entered in to the people, the disciples suffered him not. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And when Paul was about to go in to the people, the disciples did not let him. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Acts Chapter 19, Verse 30 |
| Albanian | Dhe Pali donte t'i dilte popullit, por dishepujt nuk e lejonin. |
| Cebuano | Ug si Pablo buot unta moadto ipon sa katilingban, apan gidid-an siya sa mga tinun-an; |
| Croatian | Kad je Pavao htio meðu narod, ne dopustiše mu uèenici. |
| Danish | Men da Paulus vilde gå ind iblandt Folkemængden, tilstedte Disciplene ham det ikke. |
| Dutch | En als Paulus tot het volk wilde ingaan, lieten het hem de discipelen niet toe. |
| Finnish | Ja kun Paavali tahtoi mennä kansanjoukkoon, eivät opetuslapset sitä sallineet. |
| French | Paul voulait se présenter devant le peuple, mais les disciples l`en empêchèrent; |
| German | Da aber Paulus wollte unter das Volk gehen, ließen's ihm die Jünger nicht zu. |
| Hungarian | Pál pedig mikor a nép közé akara menni, nem ereszték õt a tanÃtványok. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Paulus mau masuk mengikuti mereka, tetapi orang-orang yang percaya kepada Yesus di sana melarang dia. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Apabila Paulus hendak masuk ke dalam antara orang banyak itu, lalu murid-murid itu pun menahan dia. |
| Italian | Paolo voleva presentarsi alla folla, ma i discepoli non glielo permisero. |
| Latvian | Kad Pâvils gribçja iet pie tautas, mâcekïi to nepieïâva. |
| Maori | A, i a Paora e mea ana kia tomo ki roto ki te iwi, kihai ia i tukua e nga akonga. |
| Norwegian | Paulus vilde nu gå der inn til folket, men disiplene tillot ham det ikke; |
| Portuguese | Querendo Paulo apresentar-se ao povo, os discÃpulos não lho permitiram. |
| Rumanian | Pavel voia sq vinq knaintea norodului, dar nu l-au lqsat ucenicii. |
| Russian | лПЗДБ ЦЕ рБЧЕМ ИПФЕМ ЧПКФЙ Ч ОБТПД, ХЮЕОЙЛЙ ОЕ ДПРХУФЙМЙ ЕЗП. |
| Shuar | Tura Pápruka iruntai jeanam Wayá chichastaj taun, Nuyá Yus-shuar ármia nu, nuna suritkiarmiayi. |
| Spanish | Aunque Pablo querÃa salir a la multitud, los discÃpulos no se lo permitieron. |
| Swahili | Paulo mwenyewe alitaka kuukabili huo umati wa watu, lakini wale waumini walimzuia. |
| Swedish | Paulus ville då gå in bland folket men lärjungarna tillstadde honom det icke. |
| Uma | Paulus doko' hilou dohe-ra mesua' hi rala poromua toe. Aga topetuku' Yesus mpokorai' -i bona neo' -i hilou. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "PAULO": paulownia, paulownias. (additional references) | |
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"PAULO" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Akulov, Bekulo, Padula, pailo, Pakula, Papudo, Paule, Paulii, Paulz, Peulh, Pielou, Populo, Pujo, pulao, Pulbo, Yakulov. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-l-o-p-u" | |
-1 letter: loup, opal, pula. | |
-2 letters: alp, lap, lop, pal, pol, pul, upo. | |
-3 letters: al, la, lo, op, pa, up. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-l-o-p-u" | |
+1 letter: copula, cupola, upload. | |
+2 letters: ampoule, apolune, copulae, copular, copulas, cupolas, outleap, outplan, outplay, parlour, parlous, plugola, popular, poulard, poundal, scopula, spousal, uploads. | |
+3 letters: ampoules, apologue, apolunes, copulate, cupolaed, espousal, opaquely, opercula, opuscula, outleaps, outleapt, outplans, outplays, pachouli, papulose, parlours, patulous, pauldron, petalous, plugolas, plumbago, polyuria, populace, populate, postural, poularde, poulards, poundals, pourable, procural, pulsator, scopulae, scopulas, sepalous, sporular, spousals, subpolar, supposal, troupial, unipolar, uploaded, uprootal, uropodal. | |
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