areíto

areíto (plural areítos)

1. A type of performance and ceremony of the Taíno people of the Caribbean.
   • 2005, Peter E. Siegel, Ancient Borinquen: Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Native Puerto Rico:

     What did an areíto actually entail? The sixteenth-century chroniclers tell us that areítos recited histories, which were transmitted through the generations.

   • 2005, Nicholas J. Saunders, The Peoples of the Caribbean: An Encyclopedia of Archaeology and Traditional Culture:

     In early encounters, the Spanish were welcomed and entertained by the Taíno, who arranged areítos in their honor as a type of elite hospitality.

• areyto

• oatier

areíto m (plural areítos)

1. areíto

• “areíto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014