tatu
English
Etymology 1
Noun
tatu (plural tatus)
Verb
tatu (third-person singular simple present tatus, present participle tatuing, simple past and past participle tatued)
Etymology 2
Noun
tatu (plural tatus)
- Alternative form of tatou (“giant armadillo”)
References
- “tatu”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
Aromanian
Noun
tatu f (plural tãtãnj, definite articulation tatul)
- Alternative form of tatã
Chichewa
Etymology
From Proto-Bantu *-tátʊ̀.
Numeral
tatu
Guaraní
Etymology
From Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tatu.
Pronunciation
Noun
tatu (plural tatukuéra)
Hungarian
Etymology
From French tatou, from Old Tupi tatu (“armadillo”).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
tatu (plural tatuk)
Declension
Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | tatu | tatuk |
accusative | tatut | tatukat |
dative | tatunak | tatuknak |
instrumental | tatuval | tatukkal |
causal-final | tatuért | tatukért |
translative | tatuvá | tatukká |
terminative | tatuig | tatukig |
essive-formal | tatuként | tatukként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | tatuban | tatukban |
superessive | tatun | tatukon |
adessive | tatunál | tatuknál |
illative | tatuba | tatukba |
sublative | tatura | tatukra |
allative | tatuhoz | tatukhoz |
elative | tatuból | tatukból |
delative | taturól | tatukról |
ablative | tatutól | tatuktól |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
tatué | tatuké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
tatuéi | tatukéi |
Possessive forms of tatu | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | tatum | tatuim |
2nd person sing. | tatud | tatuid |
3rd person sing. | tatuja | tatui |
1st person plural | tatunk | tatuink |
2nd person plural | tatutok | tatuitok |
3rd person plural | tatujuk | tatuik |
References
- ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN
Javanese
Etymology
From Old Javanese tatu.
Noun
tatu
Kituba
Numeral
tatu
Kongo
Etymology
From Proto-Bantu *-tátʊ̀.
Numeral
tatu
Old Javanese
Noun
tatu
Old Tupi
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tatu, from Proto-Tupian *jat͡sju.[1][2]
Cognate with Guaraní tatu and Sateré-Mawé sahu.
Noun
tatu (unpossessable)
Related terms
Descendants
See also
- mundegûaia (“tatu trap”)
References
Further reading
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “tatu”, 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 467, column 2
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ta‧tu
Etymology 1
Noun
tatu m (plural tatus)
Descendants
- Hunsrik: Tattu
Etymology 2
Noun
tatu f (plural tatus)
Romanian
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
tatu m (plural tatu)
- armadillo (burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates)
Declension
- Because of its unusual ending, this noun cannot be inflected normally. Inflected forms are often avoided.
Serbo-Croatian
Noun
tatu (Cyrillic spelling тату)
Noun
tatu (Cyrillic spelling тату)
Shona
< 2 | 3 | 4 > |
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Cardinal : tatu Ordinal : chitatu | ||
Etymology
From Proto-Bantu *-tátʊ̀.
Adjective
-tatú
Inflection
Swahili
30 | ||
[a], [b] ← 2 | 3 | 4 → |
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Cardinal: -tatu Ordinal: -a tatu |
Etymology
From Proto-Bantu *-tátʊ̀.
Pronunciation
Numeral
-tatu (declinable)
Inflection
Noun class | singular | plural |
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m-wa class(I/II) | — | watatu |
m-mi class(III/IV) | — | mitatu |
ji-ma class(V/VI) | — | matatu |
ki-vi class(VII/VIII) | — | vitatu |
n class(IX/X) | — | tatu |
u class(XI) | — | see n(X) or ma(VI) class |
pa class(XVI) | patatu | |
ku class(XVII) | kutatu | |
mu class(XVIII) | mutatu |
Coordinate terms
Noun
tatu (n class, plural tatu)
See also
Playing cards in Swahili · karata za kucheza (layout · text) | ||||||
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ree, rea, rei | mbili | tatu | nne | tano | sita | saba |
nane | tisa | kumi | ghulamu, mzungu wa tatu | malkia, mzungu wa pili, bibi | mfalme, mzungu wa nne, basha | jokari |
Tagalog
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /taˈtu/ [t̪ɐˈt̪u], /taˈtuʔ/ [t̪ɐˈt̪uʔ]
- Rhymes: -u, -uʔ
- Syllabification: ta‧tu
Noun
tatú or tatû (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜆᜓ)
- Alternative form of tato
Derived terms
Anagrams
Tahitian
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Verb
tatu
- to mark
Tumbuka
Etymology
From Proto-Bantu *-tátʊ̀.
Numeral
tatu
Yao
< 2 | 3 | 4 > |
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Cardinal : tatu | ||
Etymology
Cognates include Swahili tatu.
Numeral
tatu
Usage notes
This number follows a noun and takes the noun class characteristic prefix, e.g. mabweta gatatu (three boxes). See the Yao language article on Wikipedia for details on noun class prefixes.
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