sertãon.

/ˈsɛrtʉ̃u/

Forms: Also † Sertam; sertao, Sertão. Plural sertãos, sertões /ˈsɛrtõiʃ/.

Etymology: Portuguese.

Geography.

The name of an arid, barren region, characterized by caatinga, in the interior of Pernambuco and neighbouring states in NE Brazil; also applied to other areas in Brazil of similar character. Also, more widely, the remote interior or outback of Brazil.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > landscape > wild or uncultivated land > [noun] > barren land or desert > specific

Sahara1613

sertão1816

mallee1851

hammada1853

erg1875

the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [noun] > wooded land > types of

ripplelOE

wildwooda1122

rough1332

firth?a1400

tod stripec1446

osiard1509

bush1523

bush-ground1523

fritha1552

island1638

oak landc1658

pinelandc1658

piney wood1666

broom-land1707

pine barrenc1721

pine savannah1735

savannah1735

thick woods1754

scrub-land1779

olive wood1783

primeval forest1789

open wood1790

strong woods1792

scrub1805

oak flata1816

sertão1816

sprout-land1824

flatwoods1841

bush-land1842

tall timber1845

amber forest1846

caatinga1846

mahogany scrub1846

bush-flat1847

myall country1847

national forest1848

selva1849

monte1851

virgin forest1851

bush-country1855

savannah forest1874

bush-range1879

bushveld1879

protection forest1889

mulga1896

wood-bush1896

shinnery1901

fringing forest1903

monsoon forest1903

rainforest1903

savannah woodland1903

thorn forest1903

tropical rainforest1903

gallery forest1920

cloud forest1922

rain jungle1945

mato1968

1816 H. Koster Trav. Brazil vi. 77 The trees had mostly lost their leaves. I had now entered upon the Sertam, and surely it deserves the name.

1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. V. 1429/2 The cap is made in the Sertaô (the interior) of the province of Pernambuco.

1876 Encycl. Brit. IV. 226/1 Except on the loftiest mountains, and on the wide sertãos, the vegetation of Brazil is luxuriant beyond description.

1903 W. R. Fisher tr. A. F. W. Schimper Plant-geogr. iii. iii. 275 In contrast with its southern portion, the middle part of Central Brazil, the so-called Sertão district, possesses a xerophilous woodland climate.

1926 R. Nash Conquest of Brazil iv. 144 This Negro-Indian cross was considerable only in the lawless sertões of Matto Grosso.

1930 C. F. Jones S. Amer. xxxiii. 471 The physical landscape of Northeast Brazil consists of three major divisions: marginal lowlands; sertão, parched uplands of brushwood and grasses..; serra, elevated mountain zones.

1950 E. G. Ashton S. Amer. iv. 51 With a rather more generous rainfall on the sertãos..the characteristic vegetation resembles the savanna of the Matto Grosso.

1961 Times 8 Aug. 9/7 President Kubitschek's decision to move the capital from Rio to the heart of the undeveloped sertao.

1966 K. Webb tr. I. Pohl & J. Zepp Latin Amer. ii. 43 A particular vegetation type of these drier lands is the caatinga of the north-east, the sertão. This region of semi~desert has a vegetation cover made up of sparse thorn forest... Sertão in this sense means a particular place—the dry interior of north-east Brazil; in a more general usage Sertão means the sparsely inhabited backlands of the interior of Brazil. It is the equivalent of the Australian ‘outback’.

1971 P. C. C. Garnham Progress in Parasitol. ix. 191 The scene is laid in the sertão and its wide empty spaces in northern Minas Gerais.

Derivatives

sertanista n. /sɛrtaˈnista/ one engaged in activity in the sertão; one knowledgeable about the sertão and its inhabitants.

ΚΠ

1944 S. Putnam tr. E. da Cunha Rebellion in Backlands i. 45 The northern sertanistas..were fully a match for the bandeirantes of the south.

1973 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 22 June 5/2 Francisco Meireles and the two other sertanistas (Indian experts),..flew from Belem.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2018).

单词	sertão
释义	sertãon. /ˈsɛrtʉ̃u/ Forms: Also † Sertam; sertao, Sertão. Plural sertãos, sertões /ˈsɛrtõiʃ/. Etymology: Portuguese. Geography. The name of an arid, barren region, characterized by caatinga, in the interior of Pernambuco and neighbouring states in NE Brazil; also applied to other areas in Brazil of similar character. Also, more widely, the remote interior or outback of Brazil. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > wild or uncultivated land > [noun] > barren land or desert > specific Sahara1613 sertão1816 mallee1851 hammada1853 erg1875 the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [noun] > wooded land > types of ripplelOE wildwooda1122 rough1332 firth?a1400 tod stripec1446 osiard1509 bush1523 bush-ground1523 fritha1552 island1638 oak landc1658 pinelandc1658 piney wood1666 broom-land1707 pine barrenc1721 pine savannah1735 savannah1735 thick woods1754 scrub-land1779 olive wood1783 primeval forest1789 open wood1790 strong woods1792 scrub1805 oak flata1816 sertão1816 sprout-land1824 flatwoods1841 bush-land1842 tall timber1845 amber forest1846 caatinga1846 mahogany scrub1846 bush-flat1847 myall country1847 national forest1848 selva1849 monte1851 virgin forest1851 bush-country1855 savannah forest1874 bush-range1879 bushveld1879 protection forest1889 mulga1896 wood-bush1896 shinnery1901 fringing forest1903 monsoon forest1903 rainforest1903 savannah woodland1903 thorn forest1903 tropical rainforest1903 gallery forest1920 cloud forest1922 rain jungle1945 mato1968 1816 H. Koster Trav. Brazil vi. 77 The trees had mostly lost their leaves. I had now entered upon the Sertam, and surely it deserves the name. 1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. V. 1429/2 The cap is made in the Sertaô (the interior) of the province of Pernambuco. 1876 Encycl. Brit. IV. 226/1 Except on the loftiest mountains, and on the wide sertãos, the vegetation of Brazil is luxuriant beyond description. 1903 W. R. Fisher tr. A. F. W. Schimper Plant-geogr. iii. iii. 275 In contrast with its southern portion, the middle part of Central Brazil, the so-called Sertão district, possesses a xerophilous woodland climate. 1926 R. Nash Conquest of Brazil iv. 144 This Negro-Indian cross was considerable only in the lawless sertões of Matto Grosso. 1930 C. F. Jones S. Amer. xxxiii. 471 The physical landscape of Northeast Brazil consists of three major divisions: marginal lowlands; sertão, parched uplands of brushwood and grasses..; serra, elevated mountain zones. 1950 E. G. Ashton S. Amer. iv. 51 With a rather more generous rainfall on the sertãos..the characteristic vegetation resembles the savanna of the Matto Grosso. 1961 Times 8 Aug. 9/7 President Kubitschek's decision to move the capital from Rio to the heart of the undeveloped sertao. 1966 K. Webb tr. I. Pohl & J. Zepp Latin Amer. ii. 43 A particular vegetation type of these drier lands is the caatinga of the north-east, the sertão. This region of semi~desert has a vegetation cover made up of sparse thorn forest... Sertão in this sense means a particular place—the dry interior of north-east Brazil; in a more general usage Sertão means the sparsely inhabited backlands of the interior of Brazil. It is the equivalent of the Australian ‘outback’. 1971 P. C. C. Garnham Progress in Parasitol. ix. 191 The scene is laid in the sertão and its wide empty spaces in northern Minas Gerais. Derivatives sertanista n. /sɛrtaˈnista/ one engaged in activity in the sertão; one knowledgeable about the sertão and its inhabitants. ΚΠ 1944 S. Putnam tr. E. da Cunha Rebellion in Backlands i. 45 The northern sertanistas..were fully a match for the bandeirantes of the south. 1973 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 22 June 5/2 Francisco Meireles and the two other sertanistas (Indian experts),..flew from Belem. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1816
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