mba'e'ueteeté

Old Tupi

mba'e'ueteeté

Etymology

From mba'e (“thing”) +‎ 'u (“act of eating”) +‎ eteeté (“immense, too much”), literally “immense act of eating things, act of eating things too much”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mba.ʔɛ.ʔu.ɛ.tɛ.ɛˈtɛ]
• Rhymes: -ɛ
• Hyphenation: mba‧'e‧'u‧e‧te‧e‧té

Noun

mba'e'ueteeté (possessable)

1. gluttony
   • 1618, Antônio de Araújo, chapter 1, in Cateciſmo na Lingoa Braſilica [Catechism in the Brazilian Language], 1 edition, Livro Primeiro da Doctrina Christam (overall work in Old Tupi, Portuguese, and Latin), Lisbon: Pedro Crasbeeck, page 18:

     Mbaé û ètè ètè robajàra, Oyanhóte mbaeû.

     [Mba'eueteeté robaîara oîá nhote mba'e'u.]

     The opposite of gluttony [is] eating only enough.

Further reading

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “mba'e'ueteeté”, 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 269, column 2