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.

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

tatu (plural tatukuéra)

1. armadillo

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

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

tatu (plural tatuk)

1. armadillo

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
non-attributive possessive - singular	tatué	tatuké
non-attributive possessive - plural	tatuéi	tatukéi

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

tatu

1. Romanization of ꦠꦠꦸ

tatu

1. three

From Proto-Bantu *-tátʊ̀.

tatu

1. three

Unknown (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /ta.tu/
• Rhymes: -tu
• Hyphenation: ta‧tu

tatu

1. wound

• > Javanese: ꦠꦠꦸ (tatu) (inherited)

From Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tatu, from Proto-Tupian *jat͡sju.

Cognate with Guaraní tatu and Sateré-Mawé sahu.

tatu (unpossessable)

1. armadillo (any mammal in the order Cingulata)
   • Pierre Belon (1553) chapter III, in Les observations de plusieurs singularitez et choses memorables trouvées en Grèce, Asie, Judée, Egypte, Arabie et autres pays estranges, book 1 (overall work in Middle French), Paris: G. Corrozet, page 5: “Tatou”
   • Hans Staden (1557) chapter XXX, in Warhaftige [Hiſtoria und] beſchꝛeibung eyner Landtſchafft der wilden nacketen/grimmigen menſchfreſſer leuthen/in der newenwelt America gelegen [True history and description of a land of wild, naked, fierce man-eating people located in the New World of America], volume 2 (overall work in German), Marburg: Andreas Kolbe, unnumbered page: “Dattu”
   • André Thevet (1557–1558) chapter 24, in Les singularitez de la France Antarctique [The singularities of France Antarctique] (overall work in Middle French), Paris: Maurice de La Porte, page 48: “Tatou”
   • Joseph of Anchieta (1560) chapter XXVIII, in Epistola quamplurimarum rerum naturalium quae S. Vicentii (nunc S. Pauli) provinciam incolunt sistens descriptionem (overall work in Latin); republished as Diogo de Toledo Lara Ordonhez, editor, Lisboa: Typis Academiae, 1799, page 20: “Tatû”
   • Jean de Léry (1578) 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 156: “Tatou”
   • Fernão Cardim (p. 1583) “A Treatiſe of Braſil, written by a Portugall which had long lived there”, in Samuel Purchas, transl., Francis Cooke, compiler, Pvrchas his Pilgrimes, part IV, book VII, chapter I § IIII (overall work in English), London: H. Fetherston, published 1625, page 1302: “Tatu”
   • Gabriel Soares de Sousa (1587) chapter CII, in Noticia do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese), Salvador; republished as Francisco Adolpho de Varnhagen, editor, Tratado descriptivo do Brazil em 1587, Rio de Janeiro: Laemmert, 1851, page 251: “tatús”
   • Francisco Soares (1590–1596) “Tatu caualo armado”, in De alguãs Cousas mais notaueis do brasil e de alguñs costumes dos Indios [Of some of Brazil's most notable things and some Indian customs] (overall work in Portuguese), page 41; republished as Antônio Geraldo da Cunha, compiler, Coisas Notáveis do Brasil (Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa; 6), Rio de Janeiro: Instituto Nacional do Livro, 1966, page 111, line 1055: “Tatu”
   • Claude d'Abbeville (1614) chapter XV, in Hiſtoire de la Miſsion des Peres Capucins en L’Iſle de Maragnan et terres circonuoiſines [History of the Mission of the Capuchin Fathers in the Island of Maranhão and surrounding lands] (overall work in French), Paris: Imprimerie de François Huby, page 96v: “Tatous”
   • Georg Marcgrave, Willem Piso (1648) Historia Naturalis Brasiliae [Brazilian Natural History], Rerum Naturalium Historiae, book VI, chapter VIII (overall work in Latin), Amsterdam: Elzevir, page 231: “Tatv”

• Nheengatu: tatú
• → French: tatou, tattou (obsolete)
  • → Breton: tatou
  • → English: tatou
  • → Hungarian: tatu
  • → Romanian: tatu
• → Portuguese: tatu
  • → Hunsrik: Tattu

• mundegûaia (“tatu trap”)

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “tatu”, 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 467, column 2
• 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 256

• Hyphenation: ta‧tu

Borrowed from Old Tupi tatu, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tatu, from Proto-Tupian *jat͡sju.

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

Shona cardinal numbers

<  2	3	4  >
Cardinal : tatu     Ordinal : chitatu

From Proto-Bantu *-tátʊ̀.

-tatú

1. three

Swahili numbers ^(edit)

	30
[a], [b] ←  2	3	4  →
Cardinal: -tatu     Ordinal: -a tatu

From Proto-Bantu *-tátʊ̀.

• Audio (Kenya):

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-tatu (declinable)

1. three

tatu (n class, plural tatu)

1. (card games) three

Playing cards in Swahili · karata za kucheza (layout · text)
ree, rea, rei	mbili	tatu	nne	tano	sita	saba
nane	tisa	kumi	ghulamu, mzungu wa tatu	malkia, mzungu wa pili, bibi	mfalme, mzungu wa nne, basha	jokari

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

tatú or tatû (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜆᜓ)

1. Alternative form of tato

• tuta

(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

Yao cardinal numbers

<  2	3	4  >
Cardinal : tatu

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.