tatu

See also: Tatu, tatú, Ta-tu, and Ta Tu

English

Etymology 1

Noun

tatu (plural tatus)

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

Verb

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)

Etymology 2

Noun

tatu (plural tatus)

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

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for tatu in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Chichewa

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-tátʊ̀.

Numeral

tatu

  1. three

Guaraní

Noun

tatu

  1. armadillo

Hungarian
tatu

Etymology

From French tatou, from tatú (“armadillo”).[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈtɒtu]
  • Hyphenation: ta‧tu

Noun

tatu (plural tatuk)

  1. armadillo

Declension
Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative tatu tatuk
accusative tatut tatukat
dative tatunak tatuknak
instrumental tatuval tatukkal
causal-final tatuért tatukért
translative tatuvá tatukká
terminative tatuig tatukig
essive-formal tatuként tatukként
essive-modal — —
inessive tatuban tatukban
superessive tatun tatukon
adessive tatunál tatuknál
illative tatuba tatukba
sublative tatura tatukra
allative tatuhoz tatukhoz
elative tatuból tatukból
delative taturól tatukról
ablative tatutól tatuktól
Possessive forms of tatu
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. tatum tatuim
2nd person sing. tatud tatuid
3rd person sing. tatuja tatui
1st person plural tatunk tatuink
2nd person plural tatutok tatuitok
3rd person plural tatujuk tatuik

References
  1. Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Tupi, compare Guaraní tatu.

Noun

tatu m (plural tatus)

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

Romanian
Tatu

Etymology

Borrowed from French tatou.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /taˈtu/

Noun

tatu m (plural tatu)

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

Declension
  • Because of its unusual ending, this noun cannot be inflected normally. Inflected forms are often avoided.
declension of tatu
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) tatu tatuul (niște) tatu —
genitive/dative (unui) tatu tatuului (unor) tatu —
vocative tatu —

Swahili
Swahili cardinal numbers
 <  2 3 4  > 
    Cardinal : -tatu

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-tátʊ̀.

Numeral

-tatu (declinable)

  1. three

Inflection
Inflected forms of -tatu
Noun class plural only
M-wa class watatu
M-mi class mitatu
Ma class matatu
Ki-vi class vitatu
N class tatu
U class tatu
Pa class patatu
Ku class kutatu
Mu class mutatu

Tahitian

Etymology

Verb

tatu

  1. to mark

Yao
Yao cardinal numbers
 <  2 3 4  > 
    Cardinal : tatu

Etymology

Cognates include Swahili tatu.

Numeral

tatu

  1. three

Usage notes

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.

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