atã

• ate, eatã

atã f (plural ati or ate)

1. mother

   Synonym: dadã

• atanhẽ

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *atã (“strong, hard”).^[1]

Cognate with Mbyá Guaraní atã.

• IPA^(key): /aˈtã/
• Rhymes: -ã
• Hyphenation: a‧tã

atã (IIa class pluriform, R1 ratã, R2 satã, noun form atã)

1. strong (capable of producing great physical force)
   • c. 1585, Joseph of Anchieta, “[Na Aldeia de Guaraparim] [In the Village of Guaraparim]” (chapter LXIV), in [Booklet of various poems], Guarapari, page 153v, column 1, lines 478–482; republished as Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, compiler, Poesias, São Paulo, 1956, page 291:

     Onhemoteguãtemã / orogoeraço corine / aecatu derupine / xepoçaca, xeratã / oroapec, oroecine

     [Onhemotegûãte mã / orogûerasó korine / a'ekatu nde rupine / xe posaká, xe ratã / oroapek, oroesyne]

     I'm gonna take you today, be able to raise you. I'm brave, I'm strong, I'm gonna singe and roast you.

2. hard (difficult to break, cut or penetrate)
3. rigid, firm; stiff (hard to bend, inflexible)
4. straight (not crooked, curly, or bent)
5. (figurative) arduous
   • 16th century, Joseph of Anchieta, “Outra” (chapter XXXI), in [Booklet of various poems], page 31, column 2, line 30; republished as Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, compiler, Poesias, São Paulo, 1956, page 70:

     Tiaço marataoãme

     [T'îasó mar[ã]atãûãme?]

     Must we go to the arduous war?

atã

1. strongly; firmly (in a strong or powerful manner)
   • 1618, Antônio de Araújo, chapter 9, in Cateciſmo na Lingoa Braſilica [Catechism in the Brazilian Language], Livro Terceiro do Cathecismo, e summa da Doctrina Christam (overall work in Old Tupi, Portuguese, and Latin), Lisbon: Pedro Crasbeeck, page 62:

     Ojaratã cerã y aôba ynupã çagoera ymopèrê perebagoerà recè?

     [Oîaratã serã i aoba i nupãsagûera i mopereperebagûera resé?]

     Does your clothes stick firmly to your past whips, when they covered you in wounds?

2. (figurative) harshly; severely

atã (possessable, IIa class pluriform, absolute tatã, R1 ratã, R2 satã)

1. strength
   • c. 1583, Joseph of Anchieta, “Na feſta de .ſ. L^ço [At the Saint Lawrence Festival]” (chapter XLIV), in [Booklet of various poems], Niterói, page 62, lines 99–101; republished as Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, compiler, Poesias, São Paulo, 1956, page 115:

     Daetee / Deratangatu reçe / uiyecoca, uiyerobia.

     [Nd'a'e[î] te'e / Nde ratãngatu resé / ûiîekoka, ûiîerobîá.]

     For that reason I lean on your great strength, I trust.

2. straightness

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “atã”, 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, pages 67–68