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English

Etymology 1

Clipping of tutorial

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Pronunciation

Noun

tute (plural tutes)

  1. (slang) Abbreviation of tutorial.
    • 1991, Hazel Holt, A lot to ask: a life of Barbara Pym, Dutton, page 29:
      Tute [tutorial] in the morning. Morrison couldn't think of much to say to us.'
    • 2002, Michael Singh, Worlds of learning: globalisation and multicultural education, Common Ground, page 35:
      The highlight of my day was at the end of the tute when the two Asian students came up to me and thanked me for letting them read.
    • 2009, Janet Giltrow, Dieter Stein, Genres in the Internet: issues in the theory of genre, John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 127:
      Many online genres - like the homless blog, the electronic petition, the review, and the "tute" [...] are often public

Etymology 2

Clipping of institute

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Pronunciation

Noun

tute (plural tutes)

  1. (slang) Abbreviation of institute.
    How did you know I went to the tute?

Etymology 3

From Spanish tute, previously from Italian tutti.

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Noun

tute (plural tutes)

  1. (card games) A trick-taking card game, originally from Italy.
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Cypriot Arabic

Root
t-v-t
2 terms

Etymology

From Arabic تُوتَة (tūta).

Noun

tute f (singulative)

  1. singulative of tut

Noun

tute f (plural tutát)

  1. mulberry (tree)

References

  • Borg, Alexander (2004) A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 177

Esperanto

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ute
  • Hyphenation: tu‧te

Adverb

tute

  1. entirely; wholly; utterly; completely; totally
    La artikolo ne tute pravas.The article isn't entirely true.
    Ni tute certas, ke ni vidis fantomon.We are entirely certain that we saw a ghost.
    Pardonu min, sed mi tute forgesis vian nomon.Forgive me, but I've completely forgotten your name.

German

Pronunciation

Verb

tute

  1. inflection of tuten:
    1. first-person singular present
    2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
    3. singular imperative

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtu.te/
  • Rhymes: -ute
  • Hyphenation: tù‧te

Noun

tute f

  1. plural of tuta

Latin

Etymology 1

From +‎ te.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

tūte

  1. you yourself
    Tute dicebas!You yourself were speaking!
    Tute tibi imperes.You yourself should order you.
    Ut tute mihi praecepisti.As you yourself have taught me.
    • c. 45 BCE, Cicero, Tusculan Disputations 2.62:
      Tibi si recta probanti placebis, tum non modo tete viceris.
    • 239 BCE – 169 BCE, Ennius :
      O Tite tute Tati, tibi tanta, tyranne tulisti!
      O thou tyrant, Titus Tatius, such great troubles you brought upon yourself!
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Adverb

tūtē (comparative tūtius, superlative tūtissimē)

  1. safely, securely, in safety, without danger

See also

References

  • tute”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • tute”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Maori

Pronunciation

Noun

tute

  1. masculine equivalent of tūī

References

  • tute” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Murui Huitoto

Etymology

Cognates include Minica Huitoto tute and Nüpode Huitoto tutde.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Hyphenation: tu‧te

Verb

tute

  1. (transitive) to hit

Conjugation

Synonyms

References

  • Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia., Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 77

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Verb

tute (imperative tut, present tense tuter, simple past and past participle tuta or tutet, present participle tutende)

  1. to toot, hoot, honk, howl, blow (e.g. a horn)

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References

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian tutti.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtute/
  • Rhymes: -ute
  • Syllabification: tu‧te

Noun

tute m (plural tutes)

  1. (card games) tute (card game)
  2. (card games) A trick-taking play in the same game, combining four kings or four knights
  3. (informal) strife

Further reading

Tocharian B

Etymology

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Adjective

tute

  1. yellow

Venetian

Adjective

tute

  1. feminine plural of tuto

West Flemish

Etymology

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Noun

tute f (plural tuutn, diminutive tuutje)

  1. dummy, pacifier

Zazaki

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Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: tu‧te

Noun

tute

  1. female equivalent of tut