alouatte

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English

Etymology

From French alouatte, alouate, from a Cariban language; compare Kari'na arawata, Trió arawata, Wayana alawata, Ye'kwana adawa'ta, Apalaí arauta, Akawaio arawta, Pemon arauta, Macushi arauta.^[1]^[2] Compare araguato.

Noun

alouatte (plural alouattes)

(now rare) A South American howler monkey (of the genus Alouatta).
- 1981, Gene Wolfe, chapter XI, in The Claw of the Conciliator (The Book of the New Sun; 2), New York: Timescape, →ISBN, page 91:
  I understood what he meant, and said, ‘Alouattes are shot every day.’

Further reading

“alouatte”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

^ “alouatte”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
^ Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary, page 238.

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