mataco

Borrowed from Spanish mataco.

• IPA^(key): /maˈta.ko/
• Rhymes: -ako
• Hyphenation: ma‧tà‧co

mataco m (plural matachi)

1. southern three-banded armadillo (Tolypeutes matacus)

   Synonym: apar

• Tolypeutes matacus on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it
• mataco in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• mataco in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

mataco (invariable)

1. (relational) Mataco

mataco m or f by sense (invariable)

1. Mataco

• Rhymes: -aku
• Hyphenation: ma‧ta‧co

Borrowed from Spanish mataco.

mataco m (plural matacos)

1. southern three-banded armadillo (Tolypeutes matacus)

mataco m (plural matacos, feminine mataca, feminine plural matacas)

1. (dated) Wichí

mataco (feminine mataca, masculine plural matacos, feminine plural matacas)

1. (dated, relational) of the Wichí people or language

Borrowed from Umbundu atako (“buttocks, nudity”).^[1]

mataco m (plural matacos)

1. (Angola, Brazil, Mozambique, colloquial) buttocks

• “mataco”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “mataco”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “mataco”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “mataco”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

mataco (feminine mataca, masculine plural matacos, feminine plural matacas)

1. Mataco

mataco m or f by sense (plural matacos)

1. Mataco

• “mataco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024