Sorriso
[soˈriːzo]Meaning
Galician word for "smile", from Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin subrīsus
Background Story
Sorriso is the Galician word for "smile", from Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin subrīsus. It is also the name of a municipality in Mato Grosso, Brazil, where the name came from Italian immigrants who cultivated only rice there: "só riso", meaning "only rice", the two words merging to form the name of the city.
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