tatu

See also: Tatu, tatú, tatù, Ta-tu, Ta Tu, and тату

English

Etymology 1

Noun

tatu (plural tatus)

1. Archaic form of tattoo. (decorative ink design on the skin)

Verb

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)

Etymology 2

Noun

tatu (plural tatus)

1. Alternative form of tatou (“giant armadillo”)

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

Anagrams

• taut, taut-

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Aromanian

Noun

tatu f (plural tãtãnj, definite articulation tatul)

1. Alternative form of tatã

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Chichewa

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-tátʊ̀.

Numeral

tatu

1. three

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Guaraní

Noun

tatu

1. armadillo

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Hungarian

tatu

Etymology

From French tatou, from tatu (“armadillo”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

tatu (plural tatuk)

1. armadillo

Declension

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

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Javanese

Etymology

From Old Javanese tatu.

Noun

tatu

1. wound

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Old Javanese

Noun

tatu

1. wound

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Old Tupi

tatu

Etymology

From Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tatu.

Noun

tatu

1. armadillo

Descendants

• ⇒ French: tatou
• ⇒ Hungarian: tatu
• ⇒ Portuguese: tatu

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Tupi, compare Guaraní tatu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌtaˈtu/, [ˌtaˈtu]

• Hyphenation: ta‧tu

Noun

tatu m (plural tatus)

1. armadillo
2. (colloquial, South Brazil) booger
3. (colloquial, South Brazil) fool

Descendants

• Hunsrik: Tattu

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Romanian

Tatu

Etymology

Borrowed from French tatou.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taˈtu/

Noun

tatu m (plural tatu)

1. armadillo (burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates)

Declension

• Because of its unusual ending, this noun cannot be inflected normally. Inflected forms are often avoided.

Declension of tatu

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) tatu	tatuul	(niște) tatu	—
genitive/dative	(unui) tatu	tatuului	(unor) tatu	—
vocative	tatu		—

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Serbo-Croatian

Noun

tatu (Cyrillic spelling тату)

1. dative/locative singular of tat

Noun

tatu (Cyrillic spelling тату)

1. accusative singular of tata

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Shona

Shona cardinal numbers

<  2	3	4  >
Cardinal : tatu     Ordinal : chitatu

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-tátʊ̀.

Adjective

-tatú

1. three

Inflection

Inflected forms of -tatú

plural only
Class 2		vatatú
Class 4		mitatú
Class 6		matatú
Class 8		zvitatú
Class 10		nhatú
Class 13		tutatú

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Swahili

Swahili numbers ^(edit)

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

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-tátʊ̀.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya)

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Numeral

-tatu (declinable)

1. three

Inflection

Inflected forms of -tatu

Noun class	plural only
M-wa class	watatu
M-mi class	mitatu
Ma class	matatu
Ki-vi class	vitatu
N class	tatu
U class	tatu
Pa class	patatu
Ku class	kutatu
Mu class	mutatu

Noun

tatu (n class, plural tatu)

1. (card games) three

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Tagalog

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ta‧tu
• IPA^(key): /taˈtu/, [tɐˈtu]
• IPA^(key): /taˈtuʔ/, [tɐˈtuʔ]

Noun

tatú or tatû

1. Alternative form of tato

Derived terms

• itatu
• magpatatu
• magtatu
• patatuhan
• tatuhan

 

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Tahitian

Etymology

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

Verb

tatu

1. to mark

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Yao

Yao cardinal numbers

<  2	3	4  >
Cardinal : tatu

Etymology

Cognates include Swahili tatu.

Numeral

tatu

1. three

Usage notes

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.