tapiti

See also: tapiƫi

Guaraní

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta.pi.ˈti/

Noun

tapiti (plural tapitikuéra)

1. rabbit

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

• tapeti

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tapiti.

Cognate with Guaraní tapiti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ta.piˈti]
• Rhymes: -i
• Hyphenation: ta‧pi‧ti

Noun

tapiti (unpossessable)

1. tapeti (Sylvilagus brasiliensis)
2. (astronomy) Name of a constellation. Further details are uncertain.

Descendants

• Nheengatu: tapetí, tapití
• → Portuguese: tapiti, tapeti
  • → English: tapeti

References

• Jean de Léry (1578) chapter XX, in 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 348: “Tapiti”
• anonymous author (1622) “Coelho”, 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 76: “Tapiti”
• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “tapeti”, 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 462, column 1
• Nelson Papavero, Dante Martins Teixeira (2014) Zoonímia tupi nos escritos quinhentistas europeus [Tupian zoonymy in 16th century European writings] (Arquivos NEHiLP; 3) (in Portuguese), São Paulo: FFLCH-USP, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 252

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• tapeti

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Tupi tapiti, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tapiti.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ta.piˈt͡ʃi/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /tɐ.piˈti/

• Rhymes: -i
• Hyphenation: ta‧pi‧ti

Noun

tapiti m (plural tapitis)

1. (Brazil) tapeti (Sylvilagus brasiliensis)

Descendants

• → English: tapeti