# tatu
## English
### Etymology 1
#### Noun

tatu (plural tatus)
* Archaic form of tattoo. (decorative ink design on the skin)

#### Verb

tatu (third-person singular simple present tatus, present participle tatuing, simple past and past participle tatued)
* Archaic form of tattoo. (decorative ink design on the skin)

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

tatu (plural tatus)
* Alternative form of tatou (“giant armadillo”)

### References

* “tatu”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* taut, taut-

## Aromanian
### Noun

tatu f (plural tãtãnj, definite articulation tatul)
* Alternative form of tatã

## Chichewa
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-tátʊ̀.

### Numeral

tatu
* three

## Guaraní
### Etymology

From Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tatu.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [taˈtu]
* Rhymes: -u
* Hyphenation: ta‧tu

### Noun

tatu (plural tatukuéra)
* armadillo

## Hungarian
### Etymology

From French tatou, from Old Tupi tatu (“armadillo”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈtɒtu]
* Hyphenation: ta‧tu
* Rhymes: -tu

### Noun

tatu (plural tatuk)
* armadillo

#### Declension
### References

* ↑ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

## Javanese
### Romanization

tatu
* Romanization of ꦠꦠꦸ

## Kituba
### Numeral

tatu
* three

## Kongo
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-tátʊ̀.

### Numeral

tatu
* three

## Old Javanese
### Etymology

Unknown (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ta.tu/
* Rhymes: -tu
* Hyphenation: ta‧tu

### Noun

tatu
* wound

#### Derived terms

* anatwani
* atatu
* katatwan

#### Descendants

* > Javanese: ꦠꦠꦸ (tatu) (inherited)

## Old Tupi
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tatu, from Proto-Tupian *jat͡sju. First attested in 1553.
Cognate with Guaraní tatu and Sateré-Mawé sahu.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /taˈtu/
* Rhymes: -u
* Hyphenation: ta‧tu

### Noun

tatu (unpossessable)
* armadillo (any mammal in the order Cingulata)
** Pierre Belon (1553) chapter III, in Les observations de plusieurs singularitez et choses memorables trouvées en Grèce, Asie, Judée, Egypte, Arabie et autres pays estranges, book 1 (overall work in Middle French), Paris: G. Corrozet, page 5: “Tatou”
** Hans Staden (1557) chapter XXX, in Warhaftige Hiſtoria [True History], volume 2 (overall work in German), Marburg: Andreas Kolbe, unnumbered page: “Dattu”
** André Thevet (1557–1558) chapter 24, in Les singularitez de la France Antarctique [The singularities of France Antarctique] (overall work in Middle French), Paris: Maurice de La Porte, page 48: “Tatou”
** Joseph of Anchieta (1560) chapter XXVIII, in Epistola quamplurimarum rerum naturalium quae S. Vicentii (nunc S. Pauli) provinciam incolunt sistens descriptionem (overall work in Latin); republished as Diogo de Toledo Lara Ordonhez, editor, Lisboa: Typis Academiae, 1799, page 20: “Tatû”
** Jean de Léry (1578) Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Bresil, autrement dite Amerique [History of a voyage to the land of Brazil, also called America] (overall work in Middle French), La Rochelle: Antoine Chuppin, page 156: “Tatou”
** Fernão Cardim (p. 1583) “A Treatiſe of Braſil, written by a Portugall which had long lived there”, in Samuel Purchas, transl., Francis Cooke, compiler, Pvrchas his Pilgrimes, part IV, book VII, chapter I § IIII (overall work in English), London: H. Fetherston, published 1625, page 1302: “Tatu”
** Gabriel Soares de Sousa (1587) chapter CII, in Noticia do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese), Salvador; republished as Francisco Adolpho de Varnhagen, editor, Tratado descriptivo do Brazil em 1587, Rio de Janeiro: Laemmert, 1851, page 251: “tatús”
** Francisco Soares (1590–1596) “Tatu caualo armado”, in De alguãs Cousas mais notaueis do brasil e de alguñs costumes dos Indios [Of some of Brazil's most notable things and some Indian customs] (overall work in Portuguese), page 41; republished as Antônio Geraldo da Cunha, compiler, Coisas Notáveis do Brasil (Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa; 6), Rio de Janeiro: Instituto Nacional do Livro, 1966, page 111, line 1055: “Tatu”
** Claude d'Abbeville (1614) chapter XV, in Hiſtoire de la Miſsion des Peres Capucins en L’Iſle de Maragnan et terres circonuoiſines [History of the Mission of the Capuchin Fathers in the Island of Maranhão and surrounding lands] (overall work in French), Paris: Imprimerie de François Huby, page 96v: “Tatous”
** Georg Marcgrave, Willem Piso (1648) Historia Naturalis Brasiliae [Brazilian Natural History], Rerum Naturalium Historiae, book VI, chapter VIII (overall work in Latin), Amsterdam: Elzevir, page 231: “Tatv”

#### Related terms

* tatu'i
* tatuapara
* tatueté
* tatugûaxima
* tatumirĩ
* tatupeba
* tatupebusu
* taturama
* taturana
* tatuûasu

#### Descendants

* Nheengatu: tatú
* → French: tatou (see there for further descendants)
* → Portuguese: tatu (see there for further descendants)

### See also

* mundegûaia (“tatu trap”)

### References

* ↑ Nelson Papavero, Dante Martins Teixeira (2014) Zoonímia tupi nos escritos quinhentistas europeus [Tupi zoonymy in the 16th-century European writings] (Arquivos NEHiLP; 3) (in Portuguese), São Paulo: FFLCH-USP, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 51
* Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “tatu”, 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 467, column 2
* Nelson Papavero, Dante Martins Teixeira (2014) Zoonímia tupi nos escritos quinhentistas europeus [Tupi zoonymy in the 16th-century European writings] (Arquivos NEHiLP; 3) (in Portuguese), São Paulo: FFLCH-USP, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 256

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /taˈtu/
* (Portugal) IPA: /taˈtu/
* Hyphenation: ta‧tu

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old Tupi tatu, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tatu, from Proto-Tupian *jat͡sju.

#### Noun

tatu m (plural tatus)
* armadillo
* (colloquial, South Brazil) booger
* (colloquial, South Brazil) fool

##### Related terms

* tatu-bola
* tatu-canastra
* tatu-de-folha
* tatu-de-jardim
* tatu-galinha
* tatu-veado
* tatu-verdadeiro
* tatuaçu
* tatuetê
* tatuzinho

##### Descendants

* → Hunsrik: Tattu

### Etymology 2

Clipping of tatuagem.

#### Noun

tatu f (plural tatus)
* (colloquial) tattoo

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French tatou.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /taˈtu/

### Noun

tatu m (plural tatu)
* armadillo (burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates)

#### Declension

* Because of its unusual ending, this noun cannot be inflected normally. Inflected forms are often avoided.

## Serbo-Croatian
### Noun

tatu (Cyrillic spelling тату)
* dative/locative singular of tat

### Noun

tatu (Cyrillic spelling тату)
* accusative singular of tata

## Shona
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-tátʊ̀.

### Adjective

-tatú
* three

#### Inflection
## Swahili
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-tátʊ̀.

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Numeral

-tatu (declinable)
* three

#### Coordinate terms

| | —0 | —1 | —2 | —3 | —4 | —5 | —6 | —7 | —8 | —9 |
| 0— | sifuri | -moja, mosi | -wili, pili | -tatu | -nne | -tano | sita | saba | -nane | tisa, kenda |
| 1— | kumi | kumi na moja, edashara | kumi na mbili, thenashara | kumi na tatu, thelatashara | kumi na nne, arobatashara | kumi na tano, hamstashara | kumi na sita, sitashara | kumi na saba, sabatashara | kumi na nane, themantashara | kumi na tisa, tisatashara |
| 2— | ishirini | ishirini na moja | ishirini na mbili | ishirini na tatu | ishirini na nne | ishirini na tano | ishirini na sita | ishirini na saba | ishirini na nane | ishirini na tisa |
| 3— | thelathini | thelathini na moja | thelathini na mbili | thelathini na tatu | thelathini na nne | thelathini na tano | thelathini na sita | thelathini na saba | thelathini na nane | thelathini na tisa |
| 4— | arobaini | arobaini na moja | arobaini na mbili | arobaini na tatu | arobaini na nne | arobaini na tano | arobaini na sita | arobaini na saba | arobaini na nane | arobaini na tisa |
| 5— | hamsini | hamsini na moja | hamsini na mbili | hamsini na tatu | hamsini na nne | hamsini na tano | hamsini na sita | hamsini na saba | hamsini na nane | hamsini na tisa |
| 6— | sitini | sitini na moja | sitini na mbili | sitini na tatu | sitini na nne | sitini na tano | sitini na sita | sitini na saba | sitini na nane | sitini na tisa |
| 7— | sabini | sabini na moja | sabini na mbili | sabini na tatu | sabini na nne | sabini na tano | sabini na sita | sabini na saba | sabini na nane | sabini na tisa |
| 8— | themanini | themanini na moja | themanini na mbili | themanini na tatu | themanini na nne | themanini na tano | themanini na sita | themanini na saba | themanini na nane | themanini na tisa |
| 9— | tisini | tisini na moja | tisini na mbili | tisini na tatu | tisini na nne | tisini na tano | tisini na sita | tisini na saba | tisini na nane | tisini na tisa |

### Noun

tatu class IX (plural tatu class X)
* (card games) three

### See also

Playing cards in Swahili · karata za kucheza (layout · text) :
| ree, rea, rei | mbili | tatu | nne | tano | sita | saba |
| nane | tisa | kumi | ghulamu, mzungu wa tatu | malkia, mzungu wa pili, bibi | mfalme, mzungu wa nne, basha | jokari |

## Tagalog
### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /taˈtu/ [t̪ɐˈt̪u], /taˈtuʔ/ [t̪ɐˈt̪uʔ]
* Rhymes: -u, -uʔ
* Syllabification: ta‧tu

### Noun

tatú or tatû (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜆᜓ)
* Alternative form of tato

#### Derived terms

* itatu
* magpatatu
* magtatu
* patatuhan
* tatuhan

### Anagrams

* tuta

## Tahitian
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Verb

tatu
* to mark

## Tumbuka
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-tátʊ̀.

### Numeral

tatu
* three

## Yao
### Etymology

Cognates include Swahili tatu.

### Numeral

tatu
* three

#### Usage notes

This number follows a noun and takes the noun class characteristic prefix, e.g. mabweta gatatu (three boxes). See the Yao language article on Wikipedia for details on noun class prefixes.