Quito
English
editEtymology
editNamed after the Quitu tribe. The name is a combination of two Tsafiki words: quitso (“center”) + to (“the world”); roughly translating as "center of the world."
Pronunciation
edit- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkitoʊ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkiːtəʊ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Homophone: keto
- Rhymes: -iːtəʊ
Proper noun
editQuito
- The capital city of Ecuador.
Translations
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References
editCapello, Ernesto (2011): City at the Center of the World: Space, History, and Modernity in Quito
Anagrams
editCentral Nahuatl
editProper noun
editQuito
- Quito (the capital city of Ecuador)
Czech
editPronunciation
editProper noun
editQuito n (related adjective quitský)
- Quito (the capital city of Ecuador)
Declension
editFurther reading
edit- “Quito”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)
French
editEtymology
editNamed after the Quitu tribe. The name is a combination of two Tsafiki words: quitso (“center”) + to (“the world”); roughly translating as "center of the world."
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editQuito f
- Quito (the capital city of Ecuador)
Portuguese
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Spanish Quito. Named after the Quitu tribe. The name is a combination of two Tsafiki words: quitso (“center”) + to (“the world”); roughly translating as "center of the world."
Pronunciation
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Proper noun
editQuito
- Quito (the capital city of Ecuador)
Slovak
editPronunciation
editProper noun
editQuito n (genitive singular Quita, declension pattern of mesto)
- Quito (the capital city of Ecuador)
References
edit- “Quito”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
Spanish
editEtymology
editNamed after the Quitu tribe. The name is a combination of two Tsafiki words: quitso (“center”) + to (“the world”); roughly translating as "center of the world."
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editQuito m
- Quito (the capital city of Ecuador)
Derived terms
edit- English terms derived from Tsafiki
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- English terms with homophones
- Rhymes:English/iːtəʊ
- Rhymes:English/iːtəʊ/2 syllables
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- en:Cities in Ecuador
- en:National capitals
- en:Places in Ecuador
- Central Nahuatl lemmas
- Central Nahuatl proper nouns
- nhn:Cities in Ecuador
- nhn:National capitals
- nhn:Places in Ecuador
- Czech terms with IPA pronunciation
- Czech lemmas
- Czech proper nouns
- Czech terms spelled with Q
- Czech neuter nouns
- cs:Cities in Ecuador
- cs:National capitals
- cs:Places in Ecuador
- Czech uncountable nouns
- Czech hard neuter nouns
- French terms derived from Tsafiki
- French 2-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French lemmas
- French proper nouns
- French feminine nouns
- fr:Cities in Ecuador
- fr:National capitals
- fr:Places in Ecuador
- Portuguese terms borrowed from Spanish
- Portuguese terms derived from Spanish
- Portuguese terms derived from Tsafiki
- Portuguese 2-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Portuguese/itu
- Rhymes:Portuguese/itu/2 syllables
- Portuguese terms with homophones
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese proper nouns
- pt:Cities in Ecuador
- pt:National capitals
- pt:Places in Ecuador
- Slovak terms with IPA pronunciation
- Slovak lemmas
- Slovak proper nouns
- Slovak terms spelled with Q
- Slovak neuter nouns
- sk:Cities in Ecuador
- sk:National capitals
- sk:Places in Ecuador
- Spanish terms derived from Tsafiki
- Spanish 2-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/ito
- Rhymes:Spanish/ito/2 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish proper nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
- es:Cities in Ecuador
- es:National capitals
- es:Places in Ecuador