caquesseitão

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Portuguese

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Etymology

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The term was most likely coined by Fernão Mendes Pinto but a Malay origin is not excluded.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ka.ke.sejˈtɐ̃w̃/ [ka.ke.seɪ̯ˈtɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
 

  • Hyphenation: ca‧ques‧sei‧tão

Noun

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caquesseitão m (plural caquesseitões)

  1. a creature mentioned in Fernão Mendes Pinto’s memoir Peregrinação, described as having the size of a large duck, being black, having bat-like wings, a lizard-like tail, a snake-like neck, spikes the length of a quill on its back and a rooster-like spur on the back of its head

References

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  1. ^ Fernão Mendes Pinto, Pedro Crasbeeck (1614) chapter XIV, in Peregrinaçam (in Portuguese), page 14: “Vimos aquy tambem hũa […] eſtranha feyção de bichos, aque os naturaes da terra chamão Caqueſſeitão ― We also saw here a […] strange kind of creature, which the locals call caquesseitão”

Further reading

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