araguato

English

Etymology

From or cognate to French araguate (whence the rare older English spelling araguate), likely from Cariban; compare Kari'na arawata and the other cognates listed at alouatte. The Century Dictionary suggests a possible relation to guariba and/or araba (an obsolete word for a howler monkey of the genus Mycetes). On the other hand, Merriam-Webster attributes it to Cariban.

Noun

araguato (plural araguatos)

1. A South American howler monkey, the ursine howler (Alouatta arctoidea).

Translations

a South American monkey, Mycetes ursinus

• Portuguese: araguato m

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “araguato”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.ɾaˈɡwa.tu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.ɾaˈɡwa.tu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.ɾaˈɡwa.to/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.ɾɐˈɡwa.tu/ [ɐ.ɾɐˈɣwa.tu]

Noun

araguato m (plural araguatos)

1. araguato (a South American monkey, Mycetes ursinus)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aɾaˈɡwato/ [a.ɾaˈɣ̞wa.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ato
• Syllabification: a‧ra‧gua‧to

Noun

araguato m (plural araguatos)

1. howler monkey

Further reading

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