mataco

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish mataco.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /maˈta.ko/
  • Rhymes: -ako
  • Hyphenation: ma‧tà‧co

Noun

mataco m (plural matachi)

  1. southern three-banded armadillo (Tolypeutes matacus)
    Synonym: apar

Further reading

  • Tolypeutes matacus on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
  • mataco in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  • mataco in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

Adjective

mataco (invariable)

  1. (relational) Mataco

Noun

mataco m or f by sense (invariable)

  1. Mataco

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /maˈta.ku/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /maˈta.ko/

  • Rhymes: -aku
  • Hyphenation: ma‧ta‧co

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish mataco.

Noun

mataco m (plural matacos)

  1. southern three-banded armadillo (Tolypeutes matacus)

Noun

mataco m (plural matacos, feminine mataca, feminine plural matacas)

  1. (dated) Wichí

Adjective

mataco (feminine mataca, masculine plural matacos, feminine plural matacas)

  1. (dated, relational) of the Wichí people or language

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Umbundu atako (buttocks, nudity).[1]

Noun

mataco m (plural matacos)

  1. (Angola, Brazil, Mozambique, colloquial) buttocks

References

  1. Costa, Teresa Manuela Camacha José da (April 2015) Umbundismos no Português de Angola. Proposta de um Dicionário de Umbundismos (Thesis) (in Portuguese), Lisboa: UNL

Spanish

Adjective

mataco (feminine mataca, masculine plural matacos, feminine plural matacas)

  1. Mataco

Noun

mataco m or f by sense (plural matacos)

  1. Mataco

Further reading

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