teiú
Portuguese
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Old Tupi teîú (“tegu”).[1]
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -u
- Hyphenation: tei‧ú
Noun
editteiú m (plural teiús)
- (Brazil) tegu (any lizard in the genera Tupinambis or Salvator)
- Synonym: jacuraru
- 1913, José de Alencar, “O combate nupcial”, in Ubirajara:
- Na véspera, o pajé burnira de novo com a folha da sambaiba o toro de madeira, e o esfregara com a banha do teiú, para que ele escorregasse da mão do guerreiro como o lagarto da mão do caçador.
- The day before, the shaman had once more burnished with the sandpaper leaf the tree trunk, and had rubbed it with tegu fat, so that it would slip from the warrior's hand as a lizard slips from the hunter's hand.
Derived terms
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editReferences
edit- ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “teîú”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 470, column 2
Further reading
edit- “teiú” in iDicionário Aulete.
- “teiú” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
- “teiú” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
- “teiú” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
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- Portuguese terms borrowed from Old Tupi
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- Portuguese 2-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Portuguese/u
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- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- Brazilian Portuguese
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- pt:Lacertoid lizards