tete

See also: Appendix:Variations of "tete"

'Are'are

Noun

tete

1. pebble

References

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

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

Guaraní

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /te.ˈte/

Noun

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

1. body

Haitian Creole

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tete/

Noun

tete

1. teat, breast

Derived terms

• bouton tete

Japanese

Romanization

tete

1. 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^(key): /ˈtete/ [ˈtɛː.tɛː]
• Hyphenation: te‧te

Noun

tété

1. bridge

Verb

tété

1. to make something a bridge
2. to cross a bridge

Derived terms

• tinetayan

Latin

Etymology

Reduplication of tē.

Pronunciation

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

Pronoun

tētē

1. (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^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈtɛtə/

Verb

tëte

1. first/third-person singular past indicative of tuon

Old Irish

Verb

tete

1. Alternative spelling of téte

Mutation

Mutation of tete

radical	lenition	nasalization
tete	thete	tete pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/

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

1. grandfather

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	class 17	class 18
patéte	kutéte	mutéte

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈcece]

Noun

tete

1. dative/locative singular of teta

Slovene

Noun

tete

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

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 [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):

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Adverb

tete

1. unsteadily

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.

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

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English today.

Adverb

tete

1. today

Noun

tete

1. today

Synonyms

• tude

Venetan

Noun

tete

1. plural of teta

Yoruba

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