Caetité
Portuguese
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Etymology
editBorrowed from Old Tupi ka'a (“forest, woods”) + eté-eté (“immense, grandiose”), literally “grandiose forest”.[1]
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɛ
- Hyphenation: Ca‧e‧ti‧té
Proper noun
editCaetité
- A municipality of Bahia, Brazil
Derived terms
edit- caetitense and caetiteense (demonyms)
References
edit- ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “Caetité”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 550, column 2
Categories:
- Portuguese terms borrowed from Old Tupi
- Portuguese terms derived from Old Tupi
- Portuguese 4-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ɛ
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ɛ/4 syllables
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese proper nouns
- pt:Municipalities of Bahia, Brazil
- pt:Places in Bahia, Brazil
- pt:Places in Brazil