quatimundéu

== Portuguese == === Alternative forms === quatimundé, quati-mundéu === Etymology === Borrowed from Old Tupi kûatimundé. By surface analysis, quati +‎ mundéu. Coati bands are composed of only females and young males – when these age, they are driven away from the group and become solitary. Old, lonely and usually fatter, males are easily caught in traps, hence the name. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ɛw Hyphenation: qua‧ti‧mun‧déu === Noun === quatimundéu m (plural quatimundéus or (rare) quatimundéis, feminine (rare) quatimundeia, feminine plural (rare) quatimundeias) (Brazil, colloquial) a solitary male coati === References === === Further reading === “quatimundéu”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “quatimundéu”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2026 “quatimundéu”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), São Paulo: 7Graus, 2009–2026 “quatimundéu”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN “quatimundéu”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026