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Tapuia, n. (and a.)|təˈpuːjə|
Also 7 Tapui; 9 Tapuio; Tapuya.
[a. Pg. Tapuìa, Sp. Tapuya, ad. Tupi-Guaraní tapua savage, slave.]
(A member of) a Brazilian Indian people not of Tupi stock. Also attrib. or as adj.
1613Purchas Pilgrimage ix. vi. 712 Towards the East dwell the Itatini people, which call themselves Garay, that is, Warriours; and others, Tapuis or Slaues. 1860Mayne Reid Odd People 44 Farther down the river, the ‘Indio manso’ is a ‘tapuio’, a hireling of the Portuguese, or, to speak more correctly, a slave. Ibid. 46 By such name is his house (or village rather) known among the tapuios and traders of the Amazon. 1910Encycl. Brit. I. 783/2 The name Amazonas arises from the battle he had with a tribe of Tapuya savages. 1944S. Putnam tr. E. da Cunha's Rebellion in Backlands i. 44 The hiding-places of the Tapuia. Ibid. ii. 83 The predominance of Tapuia terms in the geographic names of these places—terms that have resisted absorption by the Portuguese and Tupi languages. |