caquesseitão
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Portuguese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
The term was most likely coined by Fernão Mendes Pinto but a Malay origin is not excluded.[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Hyphenation: ca‧ques‧sei‧tão
Noun[edit]
caquesseitão m (plural caquesseitões)
- a creature mentioned in Fernão Mendes Pinto’s memoir Peregrinação, described as having the size of a large duck, being black, having bat-like wings, a lizard-like tail, a snake-like neck, spikes the length of a quill on its back and a rooster-like spur on the back of its head
References[edit]
- ^ Fernão Mendes Pinto, Pedro Crasbeeck (1614) chapter XIV, in Peregrinaçam (in Portuguese), page 14: “Vimos aquy tambem hũa […] eſtranha feyção de bichos, aque os naturaes da terra chamão Caqueſſeitão ― We also saw here a […] strange kind of creature, which the locals call caquesseitão”
Further reading[edit]
- caquesseitão on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia pt
- Peregrinaçam on the Portuguese Wikisource.Wikisource pt