Caetité

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Tupi ka'a (“forest, woods”) +‎ eté-eté (“immense, grandiose”), literally “grandiose forest”.[1]

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ka.e.t͡ʃiˈtɛ/

  • Rhymes: -ɛ
  • Hyphenation: Ca‧e‧ti‧té

Proper noun

Caetité ?

  1. a municipality of Bahia, Brazil

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Navarro, Eduardo de Almeida (2013), “Caetité”, 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 550, column 2
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