boitatá

== Portuguese == === Alternative forms === baitatá, batatá, biatatá, bata, batatão === Etymology === Ultimately from Old Tupi mba'etatá (“will o' the wisp”, literally “fire thing”). Because of the similarity, the etymology would be later reanalyzed as mboîtatá (literally “fire snake”), thus giving origin to the modern myth in Brazilian folklore of a fire serpent. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -a Hyphenation: boi‧ta‧tá === Proper noun === boitatá m (plural boitatás) (Brazil, folklore) term used to designate the will o' the wisp phenomenon and, from this deriving, some mythical entities === References === === Further reading === “boitatá”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “boitatá”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026