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Originally Posted by Icelander
Caravelão is the dimunative of caravel
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I am defitly not an expert in ships BUT, as a brazilan, I can grant you that in PORTUGUESE "ÃO" is ALWAYS a sufix used to refer to a bigger thing. So I dont think that there is a minimal chance that a "Caravelão" were smaller than a "Caravel". But people tend to give strange and much times no sense names ... And also the portuguese of portugal from 15-16 century may be "alien" to me.