tete

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See also: Appendix:Variations of "tete"

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Noun

tete

  1. pebble

References

French

Pronunciation

Verb

tete

  1. inflection of teter:
    1. first-person singular/third-person singular present indicative/present subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Guaraní

Pronunciation

Noun

tete (dependent form rete, third-person possessed form hete)

  1. body

Haitian Creole

Pronunciation

Noun

tete

  1. teat, breast

Derived terms

Japanese

Romanization

tete

  1. Rōmaji transcription of てて

Kapampangan

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taytay, from Proto-Austronesian *taytay. Compare Cebuano taytay, Tagalog taytay, and Sambali taytay.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtete/,
  • Hyphenation: te‧te

Noun

tété

  1. bridge

Verb

tété

  1. to make something a bridge
  2. to cross a bridge

Derived terms

Latin

Pronoun

tētē

  1. emphatic form of tē (you in the accusative or ablative)

References

  • “tete”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • tete in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Old Irish

Verb

tete

  1. Alternative spelling of téte

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
tete thete tete
pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Shona

Adjective

-téte

  1. thin
    Antonym: -kobvu
  2. narrow
    Antonym: -pamhi

Inflection

Inflected forms of -téte
singular plural
Class 1 mutéte Class 2 vatéte
Class 3 mutéte Class 4 mitéte
Class 5 déte Class 6 matéte
Class 7 chitéte Class 8 zvitéte
Class 9 nhéte Class 10 nhéte
Class 11 rutéte
Class 12 katéte Class 13 tutéte
Class 14 utéte
Class 15 kutéte
Locative classes
Class 16 patéte Class 17 kutéte Class 18 mutéte

Slovak

Pronunciation

Noun

tete

  1. dative/locative singular of teta

Slovene

Noun

tete

  1. inflection of teta:
    1. genitive singular
    2. nominative/accusative plural

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtete/
  • Rhymes: -ete
  • Syllabification: te‧te

Noun

tete m (plural tetes)

  1. (South America, colloquial) mess, pickle

Further reading

Swahili

Pronunciation

  • Audio (Kenya)(file)

Adverb

tete

  1. unsteadily

Teanu

Etymology

From ti- + Proto-Oceanic *tolu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təlu, from Proto-Austronesian *təlu.

Pronunciation

Numeral

tete

  1. three

References

Ternate

Pronunciation

Noun

tete

  1. grandfather

References

  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English today.

Adverb

tete

  1. today

Noun

tete

  1. today

Synonyms

Venetian

Noun

tete

  1. plural of teta

Yoruba

Tete ẹṣin

Etymology

Noun sense derives from ideophone sense

Pronunciation

Ideophone

tete

  1. (of an entity) running fast

Noun

tete

  1. (zootomy) leg, (in particular) the leg of a non-human animal, usually referring to the leg of an ungulate
    Synonym: urè
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