tete

tete

1. pebble

• Kateřina Naitoro, A Sketch Grammar of 'Are'are: The Sound System and Morpho-Syntax (2013)

• IPA^(key): /tɛt/
• Homophones: tetent, tetes

tete

1. inflection of teter:
   1. first-person singular/third-person singular present indicative/present subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /te.ˈte/

tete (dependent form rete, third-person possessed form hete)

1. body

• IPA^(key): /tete/

tete

1. teat, breast

• bouton tete

tete

1. Rōmaji transcription of てて

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taytay, from Proto-Austronesian *taytay. Compare Cebuano taytay, Tagalog taytay, and Sambali taytay.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtete/ [ˈtɛː.tɛː]
• Hyphenation: te‧te

tété

1. bridge

tété

1. to make something a bridge
2. to cross a bridge

Reduplication of tē.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈteː.teː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt̪ɛː.t̪e]

tētē

1. (rare) emphatic form of tē (“you”)

• “tete”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tete in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈtɛtə/

tëte

1. first/third-person singular past indicative of tuon

tete

1. alternative spelling of téte

tete

1. grandfather

-téte

1. thin

   Antonym: -kobvu

2. narrow

   Antonym: -pamhi

• IPA^(key): [ˈcece]

tete

1. dative/locative singular of teta

tete

1. inflection of teta:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative plural

• IPA^(key): /ˈtete/ [ˈt̪e.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ete
• Syllabification: te‧te

tete m (plural tetes)

1. (South America, colloquial) mess, pickle

• “tete”, 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

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tete

1. unsteadily

From ti- + Proto-Oceanic *tolu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təlu, from Proto-Austronesian *təlu.

• IPA^(key): /tete/

tete

1. three

• François, Alexandre. 2021. Teanu dictionary (Solomon Islands). Dictionaria 15. 1-1877. DOI:10.5281/zenodo.5653063. – entry tete.
• François, Alexandre. 2021. Online Teanu–English dictionary, with equivalents in Lovono and Tanema. Electronic files. Paris: CNRS. – entry tete.

• IPA^(key): [ˈte.te]

tete

1. grandfather

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

From English today.

tete

1. today

tete

1. today

• tude

tete

1. plural of teta

Noun sense derives from ideophone sense

• IPA^(key): /tē.tē/

tete

1. (of an entity) running fast

tete

1. (zootomy) leg, (in particular) the leg of a non-human animal, usually referring to the leg of an ungulate

   Synonym: urè