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# tupi

«tupi» in Mova's school dictionary: **Indigenous peoples of Brazil, who lived along the…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (Tupi — a name of a people and language); adjective (Tupi)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (a name) The Tupi are Indigenous peoples of Brazil, who lived along the Atlantic coast when Europeans arrived. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tupi/#m1)

2) Tupi is also their family of languages; many words, like jaguar, piranha, toucan and tapioca, came into English from Tupi through Portuguese. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tupi/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In geography and history lessons about Brazil and the Amazon. In word lessons it explains where animal names come from: jaguar, toucan, cashew, petunia. Kipling's Just So Stories mention the Amazon and its animals, such as the Jaguar.

### examples

- The word «jaguar» comes from the Tupi language. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tupi/#x1)
- The Tupi lived in villages along the coast of Brazil. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tupi/#x2)
- Many Brazilian place names are Tupi words. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tupi/#x3)
- «Toucan» came into English from Tupi through Portuguese. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tupi/#x4)
- Tupi people grew cassava for food. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tupi/#x5)
- Some Tupi words are still used in Brazilian Portuguese. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tupi/#x6)
- Vambagen, the Brazilian historian (now Visconde de Rio Branco), tried to prove a relationship between the ancient Egyptians, or other Turanian stock, and the Tupi Indians. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tupi/#x7)

### note

A proper name: write it with a capital T. Sometimes spelled Tupí. Not an English word itself; it is the name of a people and their languages.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «tupi» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tupi/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.