tucuxi

English

Etymology

  • Borrowed from Portuguese tucuxi, borrowed from Nheengatu tukuxí, possibly from Old Tupi pukusĩ.

    Pronunciation

    • (General American) IPA(key): /tu.kuˈʃi/
    • Audio (US):(file)

    Noun

    tucuxi (plural tucuxis)

    1. A freshwater dolphin, estuarine dolphin Sotalia fluviatilis, found in the rivers of the Amazon Basin

    Translations

    Portuguese

    Alternative forms

    Etymology

  • Borrowed from Nheengatu tukuxí, possibly from Old Tupi pukusĩ.[1]

    Pronunciation

    • (Brazil) IPA(key): /tu.kuˈʃi/

    • Rhymes: -i
    • Hyphenation: tu‧cu‧xi

    Noun

    tucuxi m (plural tucuxis)

    1. tucuxi (Sotalia fluviatilis)
      Synonyms: boto-cinza, pirajaguara
      • 1893 January 17, Lourenço da Fonseca, chapter IV, No Amazonas, in Diario de Manáos, volume III, number 83, page 2, column 1:
        — Come-se o tucuxy? perguntei eu ao comandante.
        — Não. A carne é malcheirosa e de gosto desagradavel. Do tucuxy só se aproveita o azeite.
        “Do people eat the tucuxi?” I asked the commander.
        “No. The meat is smelly and has a unpleasant taste. From the tucuxi only the oil is useful.”
      • 1969 June 22, Luiz Medeiros, “O Maravilhoso Mundo dos Cetáceos”, in Jornal do Commercio, volume LXIV, number 20.126, Carderno de literatura, page 20, column 4:
        Falou-nos, também, que um tucuxi de dois metros pode produzir, extraído da sua gordura, uns oitos litros de óleo bem grosso.
        He also told us that a two-meter-long tucuxi can produce, extracting from its fat, about eight liters of very thick oil.
      • 2021 October 4, João Paulo Vicente, “Quantos botos há na Amazônia?”, in National Geographic: Brasil‎[1], archived from the original on 11 March 2022:
        Também por ali, grupos de tucuxis pulavam animados, alguns com o corpo inteiro para fora da água.
        Around there, there were also groups of tucuxis that jumped cheerfuly, some with their whole body out of water.

    Descendants

    • → English: tucuxi

    References

    1. ^ Avila, Marcel Twardowsky (2021), “tukuxí”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, page 768

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