tropicalista

English

Etymology

From Brazilian Portuguese tropicalista (although apparently first attested later as noun).[1] By surface analysis, tropical +‎ -ista. Piecewise doublet of tropicalist.

Noun

tropicalista (plural tropicalistas)

  1. A member of a Brazilian art movement, Tropicália or Tropicalismo, of the late 1960s, encompassing theatre, poetry, and especially a mixture of music influenced by bossa nova, rock and roll, and various folk musics.
    Synonym: tropicalist
    • 2007 January 25, Larry Rohter, “Long-Lost Trove of Music Connects Brazil to Its Roots”, in New York Times‎[1]:
      As sons of the Portuguese, Caetano and Gil and all the rest of us tropicalistas absorbed this folk influence, transmuted it and then took it to the world.”

References

  1. ^ “tropicalista, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Portuguese

Etymology

From tropical +‎ -ista.

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /tɾo.pi.kaˈlis.tɐ/
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /tɾo.pi.kaˈliʃ.tɐ/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /tɾo.pi.kaˈlis.ta/
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /tɾu.pi.kɐˈliʃ.tɐ/

Adjective

tropicalista m or f (plural tropicalistas)

  1. tropical
  2. (art) tropicalist (relating to the art movement Tropicália)

Noun

tropicalista m or f (plural tropicalistas)

  1. (art) tropicalista, tropicalist

Further reading

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