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

From Proto-Bantu *-tátʊ̀.

tatu

1. three

From Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tatu

tatu

1. armadillo

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

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

tatu (plural tatuk)

1. armadillo

From Old Javanese tatu.

tatu

1. wound

tatu

1. three

tatu

1. wound

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tatu, from Proto-Tupian *jat͡sju.[1][2]

Cognate with Guaraní tatu and Sateré-Mawé sahu.

tatu (unpossessable)

1. armadillo

• → French: tatou, tattou
  • → Breton: tatou
  • → English: tatou
  • → Hungarian: tatu
  • → Romanian: tatu
• → Portuguese: tatu

• mundegûaia (“tatu trap”)

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “tatu”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 467, column 2

• Hyphenation: ta‧tu

Borrowed from Old Tupi tatu.

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

From Proto-Bantu *-tátʊ̀.

-tatú

1. three

From Proto-Bantu *-tátʊ̀.

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-tatu (declinable)

1. three

tatu (n class, plural tatu)

1. (card games) three

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

tatú or tatû (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜆᜓ)

1. Alternative form of tato

(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

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.