tabeté

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

Historical spellings 
VLB (1622) tabete

Etymology

From taba (“village”) +‎ eté (“big”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ta.βɛˈtɛ/
  • Rhymes: -ɛ
  • Hyphenation: ta‧be‧té

Noun

tabeté (possessable)

  1. (hapax legomenon) city
    Synonyms: taba, tabusu, etamusu

References

  1. ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “tabeté”, 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 456, column 1
  • anonymous author (1622) “Cidade”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica (overall work in Portuguese), Piratininga; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, volume 1, São Paulo: USP, 1953, page 74: “Tabete”
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