matamatá

Inherited from Old Tupi matamatá.

matamatá (plural matamatá-itá)

1. matamata (Chelus fimbriata)
2. tree of the species Eschweilera coriacea

• Marcel Twardowsky Avila (2021) “matamatá”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, page 461

matamatá (unpossessable) (North Tupi)

1. (hapax legomenon) matamata (Chelus fimbriata)
   • [c. 1631, Christovão de Lisboa, Historia dos animaes e arvores do Maranhão [History of Maranhão's animals and trees] (in Portuguese), Lisbon, page 174v:

     matamata he armado não se come

     matamata is armored, not for eating]

• Nheengatu: matamatá
• → Brazilian Portuguese: matamatá, matá-matá, mata-mata
  • → English: matamata

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “matamatá”, 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 265, column 2

• matá-matá, mata-mata

Borrowed from Nheengatu and Old Tupi matamatá.

matamatá m (plural matamatás) (Brazil)

1. matamata (Chelus fimbriata)

   Synonym: tartaruga-matamatá

2. tree of the species Eschweilera coriacea

• → English: matamata