cuandu
Portuguese
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Old Tupi kûandu.[1]
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -u
- Hyphenation: cu‧an‧du
Noun
[edit]cuandu m (plural cuandus)
- (Brazil) coendou (Coendou prehensilis)
- Synonyms: cuim, ouriço-cacheiro, porco-espinho-brasileiro
References
[edit]- ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “kûandu”, 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 235, column 2
Further reading
[edit]- “cuandu”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
- “cuandu”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
- “cuandu”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
- “cuandu”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
Categories:
- Portuguese terms borrowed from Old Tupi
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- Portuguese 3-syllable words
- Portuguese 2-syllable words
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- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns
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