areíto

English

Noun

areíto (plural areítos)

1. A type of performance and ceremony of the Taíno people of the Caribbean.
   • 2005, Peter E. Siegel, Ancient Borinquen: Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Native Puerto Rico:

     What did an areíto actually entail? The sixteenth-century chroniclers tell us that areítos recited histories, which were transmitted through the generations.

   • 2005, Nicholas J. Saunders, The Peoples of the Caribbean: An Encyclopedia of Archaeology and Traditional Culture:

     In early encounters, the Spanish were welcomed and entertained by the Taíno, who arranged areítos in their honor as a type of elite hospitality.

Alternative forms

• areyto

Anagrams

• oatier

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aɾeˈito/ [a.ɾeˈi.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ito
• Syllabification: a‧re‧í‧to

Noun

areíto m (plural areítos)

1. areíto

Further reading

• “areíto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10