mataco

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish mataco.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maˈta.ko/
• Rhymes: -ako
• Hyphenation: ma‧tà‧co

Noun

mataco m (plural matachi)

1. southern three-banded armadillo (Tolypeutes matacus)

   Synonym: apar

Further reading

• Tolypeutes matacus on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it
• mataco in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• mataco in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

Adjective

mataco (invariable)

1. (relational) Mataco

Noun

mataco m or f by sense (invariable)

1. Mataco

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /maˈta.ku/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /maˈta.ku/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /maˈta.ko/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /mɐˈta.ku/

• Rhymes: -aku
• Hyphenation: ma‧ta‧co

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish mataco.

Noun

mataco m (plural matacos)

1. southern three-banded armadillo (Tolypeutes matacus)

Noun

mataco m (plural matacos, feminine mataca, feminine plural matacas)

1. (dated) Wichí

Adjective

mataco (feminine mataca, masculine plural matacos, feminine plural matacas)

1. (dated, relational) of the Wichí people or language

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Umbundu atako (“buttocks, nudity”).

Noun

mataco m (plural matacos)

1. (Angola, Brazil, Mozambique, colloquial) buttocks

References

• “mataco” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “mataco” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
• “mataco” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
• “mataco” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Adjective

mataco (feminine mataca, masculine plural matacos, feminine plural matacas)

1. Mataco

Noun

mataco m or f by sense (plural matacos)

1. Mataco

Further reading

• “mataco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014