Etymology

tropicalista

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Today it means: 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. Full definition →

Brazilian Portuguese tropicalista
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  1. Brazilian Portuguese · borrowed fromtropicalista
  2. English todaytropicalista

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

Words from the same roots

Brazilian Portuguesetropicalista all →

tropicalist

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