tatu

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

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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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Chichewa

Numeral

tatu

1. three

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Guaraní

Noun

tatu

1. armadillo

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Hungarian

tatu

Pronunciation

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

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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Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Tupi, compare Guaraní tatu.

Noun

tatu m (plural tatus)

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

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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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Swahili

Swahili cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : -tatu

Numeral

-tatu (declinable)

1. (cardinal) 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

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Tahitian

Verb

tatu

1. to mark