canarinho

== Portuguese == === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: ca‧na‧ri‧nho === Etymology 1 === From canário +‎ -inho. ==== Noun ==== canarinho m (plural canarinhos) diminutive of canário === Etymology 2 === From canarinho, a nickname created by the journalist Geraldo José de Almeida in 1954, because from the 1950 to 1954 World Cup, Brazil changed the color of its strip from white to the four colors of its national flag. ==== Adjective ==== canarinho (feminine canarinha, masculine plural canarinhos, feminine plural canarinhas) (soccer, informal, poetic) of or relating to Brazil national football team ==== Noun ==== canarinho f (uncountable) (Brazil) Brazil national football team (Brazil) the yellow shirt used by the Brazil national football team ==== Descendants ==== Spanish: canarinha === References === === Further reading === “canarinho”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “canarinho”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026