tete

tete

See also: Tete, teté, tetě, tetë, tète, tēte, tête, tété, tētē, tę̋tę̌, and tê tê

'Are'are

Noun

tete

1. pebble

References

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

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛt/
• Homophones: tetent, tetes

Verb

tete

1. inflection of teter:
   1. first-person singular/third-person singular present indicative/present subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

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Guaraní

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /te.ˈte/

Noun

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

1. body

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Haitian Creole

Noun

tete

1. teat, breast

Derived terms

• bouton tete

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Japanese

Romanization

tete

1. Rōmaji transcription of てて

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Kapampangan

Etymology

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

Noun

tete

1. bridge

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Latin

Pronoun

tētē

1. emphatic form of tē (you in the accusative or ablative)

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

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Old Irish

Verb

tete

1. Alternative spelling of téte

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
tete	thete	tete pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Shona

Adjective

-téte

1. thin

   Antonym: -kobvu

2. narrow

   Antonym: -pamhi

Inflection

Inflected forms of -téte

singular			plural
Class 1		mutéte	Class 2		vatéte
Class 3		mutéte	Class 4		mitéte
Class 5		déte	Class 6		matéte
Class 7		chitéte	Class 8		zvitéte
Class 9		nhéte	Class 10		nhéte
Class 11		rutéte
Class 12		katéte	Class 13		tutéte
Class 14		utéte
Class 15		kutéte
Locative classes
Class 16	patéte	Class 17	kutéte	Class 18	mutéte

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Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtete]

Noun

tete

1. dative/locative singular of teta

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Slovene

Noun

tete

1. inflection of teta:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative plural

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtete/ [ˈt̪e.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ete
• Syllabification: te‧te

Noun

tete m (plural tetes)

1. (South America, colloquial) mess, pickle

Further reading

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

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Swahili

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya)

  (file)

Adverb

tete

1. unsteadily

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Teanu

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tete/

Numeral

tete

1. 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.

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Ternate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈte.te]

Noun

tete

1. grandfather

References

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

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Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English today.

Adverb

tete

1. today

Noun

tete

1. today

Synonyms

• tude

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Venetian

Noun

tete

1. plural of teta

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Yoruba

Tete ẹṣin

Etymology

Noun sense derives from ideophone sense

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tē.tē/

Ideophone

tete

1. (of an entity) running fast

Noun

tete

1. (zootomy) leg, (in particular) the leg of a non-human animal, usually referring to the leg of an ungulate

   Synonym: urè