araguato
English
Etymology
From or cognate to French araguate (whence the rare older English spelling araguate), likely from Cariban; compare Kari'na arawata and the other cognates listed at alouatte. The Century Dictionary suggests a possible relation to guariba and/or araba (an obsolete word for a howler monkey of the genus Mycetes). On the other hand, Merriam-Webster attributes it to Cariban.
Noun
araguato (plural araguatos)
- A South American howler monkey, the ursine howler (Alouatta arctoidea).
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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “araguato”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aɾaˈɡwato/ [a.ɾaˈɣ̞wa.t̪o]
- Rhymes: -ato
- Syllabification: a‧ra‧gua‧to
Further reading
- “araguato”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014