tatu

tatu (plural tatus)

1. Archaic form of tattoo (“decorative ink design on the skin”).

tatu (third-person singular simple present tatus, present participle tatuing, simple past and past participle tatued)

1. Archaic form of tattoo (“decorative ink design on the skin”).

tatu (plural tatus)

1. Alternative form of tatou (“giant armadillo”).

• “tatu”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• taut, taut-

tatu f (plural tãtãnj, definite articulation tatul)

1. alternative form of tatã

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *-tátʊ̀, from Proto-Atlantic-Congo *-tháthu, from either Proto-Niger-Congo *ta(C) or Proto-Niger-Congo *tat.

-tatu

1. three

From Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tatu.

• IPA^(key): [taˈtu]
• Rhymes: -u
• Hyphenation: ta‧tu

tatu (plural tatukuéra)

1. armadillo

From French tatou, from Old Tupi tatu (“armadillo”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɒtu]
• Hyphenation: ta‧tu
• Rhymes: -tu

tatu (plural tatuk)

1. armadillo

tatu

1. romanization of ꦠꦠꦸ

tatu

1. three

From Proto-Bantu *-tátʊ̀.

tatu

1. three

Unknown (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /ta.tu/
• Rhymes: -tu
• Hyphenation: ta‧tu

tatu

1. wound

• > Javanese: ꦠꦠꦸ (tatu) (inherited)

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tatu, from Proto-Tupian *jat͡sju. First attested in 1553.^[1]

Cognate with Guaraní tatu and Sateré-Mawé sahu.

• IPA^(key): /taˈtu/
• Rhymes: -u
• Hyphenation: ta‧tu

tatu (unpossessable)

1. armadillo (any mammal in the order Cingulata)
   • Pierre Belon (1553) chapter III, in Les observations de plusieurs singularitez et choses memorables trouvées en Grèce, Asie, Judée, Egypte, Arabie et autres pays estranges, book 1 (overall work in Middle French), Paris: G. Corrozet, page 5: “Tatou”
   • Hans Staden (1557) chapter XXX, in Warhaftige Hiſtoria [True History], volume 2 (overall work in German), Marburg: Andreas Kolbe, unnumbered page: “Dattu”
   • André Thevet (1557–1558) chapter 24, in Les singularitez de la France Antarctique [The singularities of France Antarctique] (overall work in Middle French), Paris: Maurice de La Porte, page 48: “Tatou”
   • Joseph of Anchieta (1560) chapter XXVIII, in Epistola quamplurimarum rerum naturalium quae S. Vicentii (nunc S. Pauli) provinciam incolunt sistens descriptionem (overall work in Latin); republished as Diogo de Toledo Lara Ordonhez, editor, Lisboa: Typis Academiae, 1799, page 20: “Tatû”
   • Jean de Léry (1578) Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Bresil, autrement dite Amerique [History of a voyage to the land of Brazil, also called America] (overall work in Middle French), La Rochelle: Antoine Chuppin, page 156: “Tatou”
   • Fernão Cardim (p. 1583) “A Treatiſe of Braſil, written by a Portugall which had long lived there”, in Samuel Purchas, transl., Francis Cooke, compiler, Pvrchas his Pilgrimes, part IV, book VII, chapter I § IIII (overall work in English), London: H. Fetherston, published 1625, page 1302: “Tatu”
   • Gabriel Soares de Sousa (1587) chapter CII, in Noticia do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese), Salvador; republished as Francisco Adolpho de Varnhagen, editor, Tratado descriptivo do Brazil em 1587, Rio de Janeiro: Laemmert, 1851, page 251: “tatús”
   • Francisco Soares (1590–1596) “Tatu caualo armado”, in De alguãs Cousas mais notaueis do brasil e de alguñs costumes dos Indios [Of some of Brazil's most notable things and some Indian customs] (overall work in Portuguese), page 41; republished as Antônio Geraldo da Cunha, compiler, Coisas Notáveis do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro: INL, 1966, page 111, line 1055: “Tatu”
   • Claude d'Abbeville (1614) chapter XV, in Hiſtoire de la Miſsion des Peres Capucins en L'Iſle de Maragnan et terres circonuoiſines [History of the Mission of the Capuchin Fathers in the Island of Maranhão and surrounding lands] (overall work in French), Paris: Imprimerie de François Huby, page 96v: “Tatous”
   • Georg Marcgrave, Willem Piso (1648) Historia Naturalis Brasiliae [Brazilian Natural History], Rerum Naturalium Historiae, book VI, chapter VIII (overall work in Latin), Amsterdam: Elzevir, page 231: “Tatv”

• Nheengatu: tatú
• → French: tatou (see there for further descendants)
• → Portuguese: tatu (see there for further descendants)

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “tatu”, 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 467, column 2
• Nelson Papavero, Dante Martins Teixeira (2014) Zoonímia tupi nos escritos quinhentistas europeus [Tupi zoonymy in the 16th-century European writings] (Arquivos NEHiLP; 3) (in Portuguese), São Paulo: FFLCH-USP, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 256

• Hyphenation: ta‧tu

Borrowed from Old Tupi tatu, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tatu, from Proto-Tupian *jat͡sju.

tatu m (plural tatus)

1. armadillo
2. (colloquial, South Brazil) booger
3. (colloquial, South Brazil) fool

• → Hunsrik: Tattu

Clipping of tatuagem.

tatu f (plural tatus)

1. (colloquial) tattoo

Borrowed from French tatou.

• IPA^(key): /taˈtu/

tatu m (plural tatu)

1. armadillo (burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates)

• Because of its unusual ending, this noun cannot be inflected normally. Inflected forms are often avoided.

tatu (Cyrillic spelling тату)

1. dative/locative singular of tat

tatu (Cyrillic spelling тату)

1. accusative singular of tata

Shona cardinal numbers

<  2	3	4  >
Cardinal : tatu     Ordinal : chitatu

From Proto-Bantu *-tátʊ̀.

-tatú

1. three

Swahili numbers ^(edit)

	30
[a], [b] ←  2	3	4  →
Cardinal: -tatu     Ordinal: -a tatu     Fractional: theluthi

From Proto-Bantu *-tátʊ̀.

with prefix or preceded by -a

• (Unguja standard) IPA^(key): /ˈtɑ.tu/
• (Kimvita) IPA^(key): /ˈtɑ.tu/

• Audio (Kenya):

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in n class_(X)

• (Unguja standard) IPA^(key): /ˈtɑ.tu/
• (Kimvita) IPA^(key): /ˈtʰɑ.tu/

-tatu (declinable)

1. three

tatu class IX (plural tatu class X)

1. (card games) three

Playing cards in Swahili · karata za kucheza (layout · text)
ree, rea, rei	mbili	tatu	nne	tano	sita	saba
nane	tisa	kumi	ghulamu, mzungu wa tatu	malkia, mzungu wa pili, bibi	mfalme, mzungu wa nne, basha	jokari

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /taˈtu/ [t̪ɐˈt̪u], /taˈtuʔ/ [t̪ɐˈt̪uʔ]
• Rhymes: -u, -uʔ
• Syllabification: ta‧tu

tatú or tatû (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜆᜓ)

1. alternative form of tato

• tuta

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

tatu

1. to mark

From Proto-Bantu *-tátʊ̀.

tatu

1. three

Yao cardinal numbers

<  2	3	4  >
Cardinal : tatu

Cognates include Swahili tatu.

tatu

1. three

This number follows a noun and takes the noun class characteristic prefix, e.g. mabweta gatatu (three boxes). See the Yao language article on Wikipedia for details on noun class prefixes.