Aguaí
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Old Tupi agûaí, clipping of *mboîagûaí (“rattlesnake”). The city was known as Cascavel until 1944, when it was changed to the current name.[1]
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -i
- Hyphenation: A‧gua‧í
Proper noun edit
Aguaí f
- A municipality of São Paulo, Brazil
References edit
- ^ Ednilson Caneschi, editor (2011), “História de Aguaí”, in Câmara Municipal de Aguaí (in Portuguese)