alouatte
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French alouatte, alouate, from a Cariban language; compare Kari'na arawata, Trió arawata, Wayana alawata, Ye'kwana adawa'ta, Apalaí arauta, Akawaio arawta, Pemon arauta, Macushi arauta.[1][2] Compare araguato.
Noun
[edit]alouatte (plural alouattes)
- (now rare) A South American howler monkey (of the genus Alouatta). [from 18th c.]
- 1981, Gene Wolfe, chapter XI, in The Claw of the Conciliator (The Book of the New Sun; 2), New York: Timescape, →ISBN, page 91:
- I understood what he meant, and said, ‘Alouattes are shot every day.’
Further reading
[edit]- “alouatte”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- ^ “alouatte”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- ^ Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary, page 238.