Quito

See also: quito and quitó

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Quito. Named after the Quitu tribe. The name is a combination of two Tsafiki words: quitso (“center”) + to (“the world”); roughly translating as "center of the world."

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkitoʊ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkiːtəʊ/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• Homophone: keto
• Rhymes: -iːtəʊ

Proper noun

Quito

2. The capital city of Ecuador.
3. (historical) A historical province of colonial South America, corresponding to present-day Ecuador.
   • 1992, Edwin Williamson, The Penguin history of Latin America, London, New York: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 27:

     The conquest of the northern provinces of Quito was undertaken by one of Pizarro’s lieutenants, Sebastian de Benalcazar.

Translations

capital of Ecuador

• Arabic: كِيتُو f (kītū)
• Armenian: Կիտո (hy) (Kito)
• Asturian: Quitu (ast)
• Belarusian: Кі́та m (Kíta)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 基多 (zh) (Jīduō)

• Czech: Quito (cs) n
• Danish: Quito
• Dutch: Quito (nl) n
• Finnish: Quito (fi)
• French: Quito (fr) m
• Georgian: კიტო (ḳiṭo)
• German: Quito (de) n
• Greek: Κίτο (el) n (Kíto)
• Hebrew: קִיטוֹ f (kito)
• Irish: Caíteo m
• Japanese: キト (ja) (Kito)
• Khmer: គីតូ (km) (kiitou)
• Korean: 키토 (Kito)
• Macedonian: Ки́то m (Kíto)
• Navajo: Kíítʼo
• Persian: کیتو (kito)
• Polish: Quito (pl) n
• Portuguese: Quito (pt) f
• Quechua: Kitu
• Russian: Ки́то (ru) m (Kíto)
• Spanish: Quito (es) m
• Tagalog: Kito
• Thai: กีโต (gii-dtoo)
• Ukrainian: Кі́то n (Kíto)
• Vietnamese: Ki-tô

References

• Capello, Ernesto (2011): City at the Center of the World: Space, History, and Modernity in Quito

Anagrams

• quoit, toqui

Central Nahuatl

Proper noun

Quito

1. Quito (the capital city of Ecuador)

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɪto]

Proper noun

Quito n (relational adjective quitský)

1. Quito (the capital city of Ecuador)

Declension

Declension of Quito (sg-only hard neuter)

	singular
nominative	Quito
genitive	Quita
dative	Quitu
accusative	Quito
vocative	Quito
locative	Quitu
instrumental	Quitem

Further reading

• “Quito”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Quito. Named after the Quitu tribe. The name is a combination of two Tsafiki words: quitso (“center”) + to (“the world”); roughly translating as "center of the world."

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ki.to/

Proper noun

Quito f

1. Quito (the capital city of Ecuador)

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkfi.tɔ/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -itɔ
• Syllabification: Qui‧to

Proper noun

Quito n (indeclinable)

1. Quito (the capital city of Ecuador)

References

• Quito in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Quito. Named after the Quitu tribe. The name is a combination of two Tsafiki words: quitso (“center”) + to (“the world”); roughly translating as "center of the world."

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈki.tu/

• Rhymes: -itu
• Homophone: quito
• Hyphenation: Qui‧to

Proper noun

Quito

1. Quito (the capital city of Ecuador)

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkitɔ]

Proper noun

Quito n (genitive singular Quita, declension pattern of mesto)

1. Quito (the capital city of Ecuador)

References

• “Quito”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

Spanish

Etymology

Named after the Quitu tribe. The name is a combination of two Tsafiki words: quitso (“center”) + to (“the world”); roughly translating as "center of the world."

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkito/ [ˈki.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ito
• Syllabification: Qui‧to

Proper noun

Quito m

1. Quito (the capital city of Ecuador)

Derived terms

• quiteño

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkiːtʊ/

Proper noun

Quito

1. Quito (the capital city of Ecuador)