tapiti

== English == === Etymology 1 === ==== Noun ==== tapiti (plural tapitis) Alternative form of tapeti (“type of rabbit”). === Etymology 2 === ==== Noun ==== tapiti (plural tapitis) 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) tapeti, cottontail (rabbit of the genus Sylvilagus) (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/ === Noun === tapiti (plural tapitikuéra) rabbit == Portuguese == === Alternative forms === tapeti === Etymology === Borrowed from Old Tupi tapiti, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tapiti. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -i Hyphenation: ta‧pi‧ti === Noun === tapiti m (plural tapitis) 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