eté

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ete"

Catalan

Noun

eté m (plural etens)

  1. (Valencia) alternative spelling of etè

Old Tupi

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɛˈtɛ/
  • Rhymes: -ɛ
  • Hyphenation: e‧té

Etymology 1

Noun

eté (possessable, IIa class pluriform, absolute teté, R1 reté, R2 seté)

  1. body
  2. matter; substance
Derived terms
  • etee'yma
  • seteba'e

Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *eta (“too”). Doublet of etá.[1]

Cognate with Guaraní heta, -ete.

Noun

eté (possessable, IIa class pluriform, absolute teté, R1 reté, R2 seté)

  1. truth; authenticity
    Synonyms: mba'eeté, supi, supikatu, supindûara
  2. excellence
    Synonym: katûaba
  3. normality

Adjective

eté (IIa class pluriform, R1 reté, R2 seté, noun form eté)

  1. true; authentic; genuine
  2. great; excelent
  3. big; large
    Synonyms: katu, -usu
  4. normal
    karaibeté
    layman
    (literally, “normal Christian”)
  5. bigger
  6. better
  7. more; -er
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Nheengatu: -ité

Adverb

eté

  1. truly; truthfully
    Synonym: supi
  2. much
  3. very
  4. too; overly
Synonyms
  • katu
  • katutenhẽ
  • katuté
Descendants
  • Nheengatu: reté (“very”)

References

  1. ^ Antônio Augusto Souza Mello (17 March 2000) “Reconstruções Lexicais e Cognatos” (chapter III), in Estudo histórico da família linguística tupi-guarani: aspectos fonológicos e lexicais (in Portuguese), Florianópolis: UFSC, page 161, line 3
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