mba'e'ueteeté
Old Tupi
editEtymology
editFrom mba'e (“thing”) + 'u (“act of eating”) + eteeté (“immense, too much”), literally “immense act of eating things, act of eating things too much”.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmba'e'ueteeté (possessable)
- gluttony
- 1618, Antônio de Araújo, chapter 1, in Cateciſmo na Lingoa Braſilica [Catechism in the Brazilian Language], 1 edition, Livro Primeiro da Doctrina Christam (overall work in Old Tupi, Portuguese, and Latin), Lisbon: Pedro Crasbeeck, page 18:
- Mbaé û ètè ètè robajàra, Oyanhóte mbaeû.
- [Mba'eueteeté robaîara oîá nhote mba'e'u.]
- The opposite of gluttony [is] eating only enough.
Further reading
edit- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “mba'e'ueteeté”, 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 269, column 2