quatimundéu

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Tupi kûatimundé. By surface analysis, quati +‎ mundéu.

Coati bands are composed of only females and young males – when these age, they are driven away from the group and become solitary. Old, lonely and usually fatter, males are easily caught in traps, hence the name.[1]

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɛw
  • Hyphenation: qua‧ti‧mun‧déu

Noun

quatimundéu m (plural quatimundéus or (rare) quatimundéis, feminine (rare) quatimundeia, feminine plural (rare) quatimundeias)

  1. (Brazil, colloquial) a solitary male coati

References

  1. ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “kuatimundé”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 237

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