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”)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for tatu in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Anagrams
Chichewa
Numeral
tatu
Guaraní
Noun
tatu
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈtɒtu]
- Hyphenation: ta‧tu
Noun
tatu (plural tatuk)
Declension
| Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | tatu | tatuk |
| accusative | tatut | tatukat |
| dative | tatunak | tatuknak |
| instrumental | tatuval | tatukkal |
| causal-final | tatuért | tatukért |
| translative | tatuvá | tatukká |
| terminative | tatuig | tatukig |
| essive-formal | tatuként | tatukként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | tatuban | tatukban |
| superessive | tatun | tatukon |
| adessive | tatunál | tatuknál |
| illative | tatuba | tatukba |
| sublative | tatura | tatukra |
| allative | tatuhoz | tatukhoz |
| elative | tatuból | tatukból |
| delative | taturól | tatukról |
| ablative | tatutól | tatuktól |
| Possessive forms of tatu | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | tatum | tatuim |
| 2nd person sing. | tatud | tatuid |
| 3rd person sing. | tatuja | tatui |
| 1st person plural | tatunk | tatuink |
| 2nd person plural | tatutok | tatuitok |
| 3rd person plural | tatujuk | tatuik |
Portuguese
Etymology
Noun
tatu m (plural tatus)
Romanian
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /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.
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) tatu | tatuul | (niște) tatu | — |
| genitive/dative | (unui) tatu | tatuului | (unor) tatu | — |
| vocative | tatu | — | ||
Swahili
| < 2 | 3 | 4 > |
|---|---|---|
| Cardinal : -tatu | ||
Numeral
-tatu (declinable)
Inflection
Tahitian
Verb
tatu
- to mark
Yao
| < 2 | 3 | 4 > |
|---|---|---|
| Cardinal : tatu | ||
Etymology
Numeral
tatu
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.