marakatĩ

Nheengatu

Etymology

Etymology tree

Italian briga

Proto-Italic *-āzi

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Latin -ereinflu.

Latin -āre

Italian -are

Italian brigare

Latin -ansder.

Italian -ante

Italian brigante

Proto-Indo-European *-nós

Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos

Proto-Italic *-īnos

Latin -īnus

Italian -ino

Italian brigantinocalq.

Catalan bergantíbor.

Portuguese bergantimbor.

Old Tupi marakatĩ

Nheengatu marakatĩ

Inherited from Old Tupi marakatĩ, borrowed from Portuguese bergantim, borrowed from Catalan bergantí, a calque of Italian brigantino, from brigante + -ino.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ma.ɾa.kaˈtĩ]
• Rhymes: -ĩ
• Hyphenation: ma‧ra‧ka‧tĩ

Noun

marakatĩ (plural marakatĩ-itá) (nautical, archaic)

1. ship

   Synonym: navio

2. warship

Derived terms

• marakatĩ-yara
• marakatĩwara

Descendants

• → Brazilian Portuguese: maracatim

References

• Marcel Twardowsky Avila (2021) “marakatĩ”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, page 454

Old Tupi

Etymology

Etymology tree

Italian briga

Proto-Italic *-āzi

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Latin -ereinflu.

Latin -āre

Italian -are

Italian brigare

Latin -ansder.

Italian -ante

Italian brigante

Proto-Indo-European *-nós

Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos

Proto-Italic *-īnos

Latin -īnus

Italian -ino

Italian brigantinocalq.

Catalan bergantíbor.

Portuguese bergantimbor.

Old Tupi marakatĩ

Borrowed from Portuguese bergantim, borrowed from Catalan bergantí, a calque of Italian brigantino, from brigante + -ino.

Noun

marakatĩ (possessable) (Língua Geral Amazônica)

1. (nautical) brigantine

Related terms

• marakatĩûasu

Descendants

• Nheengatu: marakatĩ
  • → Brazilian Portuguese: maracatim

References

• João de Arronches (1739) “NAVIO”, in Caderno da Lingua (overall work in Portuguese); republished as “O caderno da lingua ou Vocabulario Portuguez-Tupi”, in Plínio Ayrosa, editor, Revista do Museu Paulista, volume XXI, São Paulo: Imprensa Official do Estado, 1934, page 228: “maracantim açú”
• Frei Onofre (1751) “Bargantim”, in José Mariano da Conceição Velloso, editor, Dicionario portuguez, e brasiliano (overall work in Old Tupi and Portuguese), Lisbon: Officina Patriarcal, published 1795, page 19, column 2: “Maracatîm”
• Anton Meisterburg (a. 1756) “Navio”, in [Dicionário de Trier] (overall work in Portuguese and Old Tupi), Baixo Xingu, Pará, page 28, column 1, line 32; republished as Jean-Claude Muller et al., editors, Dicionário de língua geral amazônica, Potsdam: University of Potsdam, 2019, →DOI, page 205: “bergantimuçú”