# tete
## 'Are'are
### Noun

tete
* pebble

### References

* Kateřina Naitoro, A Sketch Grammar of 'Are'are: The Sound System and Morpho-Syntax (2013)

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tɛt/
* Homophones: tetent, tetes

### Verb

tete
* inflection of teter:
** first-person singular/third-person singular present indicative/present subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

## Guaraní
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /te.ˈte/

### Noun

tete (dependent form rete, third-person possessed form hete)
* body

## Haitian Creole
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tete/

### Noun

tete
* teat, breast

#### Derived terms

* bouton tete

## Japanese
### Romanization

tete
* Rōmaji transcription of てて

## Kapampangan
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taytay, from Proto-Austronesian *taytay. Compare Cebuano taytay, Tagalog taytay, and Sambali taytay.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtete/ [ˈtɛː.tɛː]
* Hyphenation: te‧te

### Noun

tété
* bridge

### Verb

tété
* to make something a bridge
* to cross a bridge

#### Derived terms

* tinetayan

## Latin
### Etymology

Reduplication of tē.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈteː.teː/, [ˈt̪eːt̪eː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈte.te/, [ˈt̪ɛːt̪e]

### Pronoun

tētē
* (rare) emphatic form of tē (“you”)

### References

* “tete”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* tete in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

## Middle High German
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (before 13th CE) /ˈtɛtə/

### Verb

tëte
* first/third-person singular past indicative of tuon

## Old Irish
### Verb

tete
* Alternative spelling of téte

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

## Papuan Malay
### Noun

tete
* grandfather

## Shona
### Adjective

-téte
* thin
    Antonym: -kobvu
* narrow
    Antonym: -pamhi

#### Inflection
## Slovak
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈcece]

### Noun

tete
* dative/locative singular of teta

## Slovene
### Noun

tete
* inflection of teta:
** genitive singular
** nominative/accusative plural

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtete/ [ˈt̪e.t̪e]
* Rhymes: -ete
* Syllabification: te‧te

### Noun

tete m (plural tetes)
* (South America, colloquial) mess, pickle

### Further reading

* “tete”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Swahili
### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Adverb

tete
* unsteadily

## Teanu
### Etymology

From ti- + Proto-Oceanic *tolu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təlu, from Proto-Austronesian *təlu.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tete/

### Numeral

tete
* three

### References

* François, Alexandre. 2021. Teanu dictionary (Solomon Islands). Dictionaria 15. 1-1877. DOI:10.5281/zenodo.5653063. – entry tete.
* François, Alexandre. 2021. Online Teanu–English dictionary, with equivalents in Lovono and Tanema. Electronic files. Paris: CNRS. – entry tete.

## Ternate
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈte.te]

### Noun

tete
* grandfather

### References

* Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

## Tok Pisin
### Etymology

From English today.

### Adverb

tete
* today

### Noun

tete
* today

### Synonyms

* tude

## Venetan
### Noun

tete
* plural of teta

## Yoruba
### Etymology

Noun sense derives from ideophone sense

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tē.tē/

### Ideophone

tete
* (of an entity) running fast

### Noun

tete
* (zootomy) leg, (in particular) the leg of a non-human animal, usually referring to the leg of an ungulate
    Synonym: urè