quatimundéu
Portuguese
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editEtymology
editBorrowed from Old Tupi kûatimundé. By surface analysis, quati + mundéu.
Coati bands are composed of only females and young males – when these age, they are driven away from the group and become solitary. Old, lonely and usually fatter, males are easily caught in traps, hence the name.[1]
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɛw
- Hyphenation: qua‧ti‧mun‧déu
Noun
editquatimundéu m (plural quatimundéus or (rare) quatimundéis, feminine (rare) quatimundeia, feminine plural (rare) quatimundeias)
- (Brazil, colloquial) a solitary male coati
References
edit- ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “kuatimundé”, 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 237
Further reading
edit- “quatimundéu”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
- “quatimundéu”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), Porto: 7Graus, 2009–2024
- “quatimundéu”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2024
- “quatimundéu”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
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