taturama
Old Tupi
Alternative forms
Etymology
Possibly from tatu (“armadillo”) + ram (“future”) + -a, because the outside of their nest is similar to an armadillo shell.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ta.tuˈɾã.ma]
- Rhymes: -ãma
- Hyphenation: ta‧tu‧ra‧ma
Noun
taturama (unpossessable)
- warrior wasp (any wasp in the genus Synoeca)
References
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “taturama”, 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 468, column 1
- 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, , →ISBN, →ISSN, page 297