tapiti

See also: tapiƫi

English

Etymology 1

Noun

tapiti (plural tapitis)

1. Alternative form of tapeti (“type of rabbit”).

Etymology 2

Noun

tapiti (plural tapitis)

1. A conical basket made of palm fibre, traditionally used in pressing the juice out of manioc.

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

• tapeti

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tapiti.

Cognate with Paraguayan Guarani tapiti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ta.piˈti]
• Rhymes: -i
• Hyphenation: ta‧pi‧ti

Noun

tapiti (unpossessable)

1. tapeti, cottontail (rabbit of the genus Sylvilagus)
2. (astronomy) Name of a constellation. Further details are uncertain.

Descendants

• Nheengatu: tapetí, tapití
• → Portuguese: tapiti, tapeti
  • → English: tapeti

References

• Jean de Léry (1578), chapter XX, in 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 348: “Tapiti”
• anonymous author (1622), “Coelho”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica (overall work in Portuguese), Piratininga; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, volume 1, São Paulo: USP, 1953, page 76: “Tapiti”
• Navarro, Eduardo de Almeida (2013), “tapeti”, 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 462, column 1
• Papavero, Nelson; Teixeira, Dante Martins (2014), Zoonímia tupi nos escritos quinhentistas europeus [Tupi zoonymy in the 16th-century European writings] (Arquivos NEHiLP; 3) (in Portuguese), São Paulo: FFLCH-USP, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 252

Paraguayan Guarani

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta.pi.ˈti/
• Rhymes: -i

Noun

tapiti (plural tapitikuéra)

1. rabbit

References

• Canese, Natalia Krivoshein de; Alcaraz, Feliciano Acosta (2016), “tapiti”, in Ñe’ẽryru [Dictionary] (overall work in Spanish), Asunción: Instituto Superior de Lenguas, →ISBN, page 104, column 1

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• tapeti

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Tupi tapiti, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tapiti.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ta.piˈt͡ʃi/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /tɐ.piˈti/

• Rhymes: -i
• Hyphenation: ta‧pi‧ti

Noun

tapiti m (plural tapitis)

1. tapeti, cottontail (rabbit of the genus Sylvilagus)

Descendants

• → English: tapeti

Further reading

• “tapiti”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “tapiti”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026