Formosa

Significado (Inglês)

1. (dated) Synonym of Taiwan: an island of East Asia.
2. (historical) Synonym of Taiwan: an administrative division including Formosa and nearby islands.
3. (historical) Synonym of Taiwan: an administrative division including Formosa and nearby islands.
4. (historical) Synonym of Taiwan: an administrative division including Formosa and nearby islands.
5. (dated) Synonym of Taiwan: an administrative division including Formosa and nearby islands.
6. (dated) Synonym of Taiwan: an administrative division including Formosa and nearby islands.
7. A city in Goiás, Brazil.
8. An island of the Bissagos Islands, Guinea-Bissau.

Conceitos

Formosa

Taiwan

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República da China

Ilha Formosa

Ilha de Formosa

Sinônimos

Taiwan

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Republic of China

Shantou

China

guqin

Altay

Datong

Forbidden City

Fushun

Kashgar

Tangshan

Tiananmen Square

Xuzhou

Yichang

Changzhou

Kashi

Zhenjiang

Daqing

Zibo

Liuzhou

Baoding

Benxi

Huainan

Nantong

Quanzhou

Xinyang

Huizhou

Land of the Dragon

Qiqihar

Traduções

Formose

Formosa

Formosa

Formosa

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Formosa

Taïwan

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Taiwan

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Formosa

Formosa

Taiwan

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Taiwan

Taiwan

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Taiwan

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Pronunciado como (IPA)

/fɔːˈməʊ.sə/

Etimologia (Inglês)

From Portuguese Formosa, as in Ilha Formosa (literally “Beautiful Island”) and Vila Formosa da Imperatriz (literally “Beautiful Town of the Empress”), from formosa (“beautiful, shapely”), from Latin fōrmōsus (“beautiful, well-formed”), from fōrma (“shape”) + -ōsus (“-ful”), literally “shapeful”.
The Brazilian city was named in honor of Empress Teresa Cristina, in the 1840s.