tatuetê
Portuguese
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Old Tupi tatueté (“true armadillo”). Doublet of tatu-verdadeiro.[1]
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -e
- Hyphenation: ta‧tu‧e‧tê
Noun
edittatuetê m (plural tatuetês)
- (Brazil) nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus, a common species of armadillo)
- Synonyms: tatu-galinha, tatu-verdadeiro, tatu-de-folha, tatu-veado
References
edit- ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “tatueté”, 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 468, column 1
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