tatu-verdadeiro

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Portuguese

Etymology

Calque of Old Tupi tatueté (literally “true armadillo”). Doublet of tatuetê.^[1]

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /taˈtu veʁ.daˈde(j).ɾu/
- (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /taˈtu veɾ.daˈde(j).ɾu/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /taˈtu veʁ.daˈde(j).ɾu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /taˈtu veɻ.daˈde(j).ɾo/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /taˈtu vɨɾ.dɐˈdɐj.ɾu/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /taˈtu bɨɾ.dɐˈdej.ɾu/
- (Central Portugal) IPA^(key): /taˈtu vɨɾ.dɐˈdej.ɾu/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /taˈtu vɨɾ.dɐˈde.ɾu/

Noun

tatu-verdadeiro m (plural tatus-verdadeiros)

nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus, a common species of armadillo)
Synonyms: tatu-galinha, tatu-de-folha, tatu-veado, tatuetê

References

^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “tatueté”, 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 468, column 1

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