uruku

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

Historical spellings 
Knivet (1591) urucu
d'Abbeville (1614) ouroucou / roucou

Etymology

    Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *uruku, from Proto-Tupian *ɨrʲuku.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): [u.ɾuˈku]
    • Rhymes: -u
    • Hyphenation: u‧ru‧ku

    Noun

    uruku (?)

    1. achiote (Bixa orellana)
      • [1614, Claude d'Abbeville, chapter XXXVIII, in Hiſtoire de la Miſsion des Peres Capucins en L'Iſle de Maragnan et terres circonuoiſines [History of the Mission of the Capuchin Fathers in the Island of Maranhão and surrounding lands] (in French), Paris: Imprimerie de François Huby, pages 226–226v:
        L'Ouroucou eſt grand comme le Prunier, ſes fueilles ſont aſſez ſemblables à I'Abricotier: ſa fleur eſt blanche & fort belle. Il porte vn fruict qui eſt remply de petis grains rouges, dontles Indiens ſe feruent pour la teinture […]
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      • [1591, Antonie Knivet, “The admirable aduentures and ſtrange fortunes of Maſter Antonie Knivet, which went with Maſter Thomas Candish in his ſecond voyage to the South Sea”, in [Samuel] Purchas, Purchas His Pilgrimes. […], 4th part, London: […] William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, […], published 1625, →OCLC, 6th book, § 4, page 1228, lines 48–50:
        The Women of this Countrie doe paint their bodies and faces with a thing called in their language Urucu; it groweth in a round Cod like a beane, and that maketh a red inke like Oker […]]
    2. achiote (orange-red dye obtained from the anchiote seed)[1]
      • [1614, Claude d'Abbeville, chapter XXXVI, in Hiſtoire de la Miſsion des Peres Capucins en L'Iſle de Maragnan et terres circonuoiſines [History of the Mission of the Capuchin Fathers in the Island of Maranhão and surrounding lands] (in French), Paris: Imprimerie de François Huby, page 208v:
        Vous retirez encore le cotton & le Roucou, eſpece de teinture rouge qui ſe trouue là en grandiſſime quantité […]
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    nouns

    Descendants

    • Nheengatu: urukú
    • → Portuguese: urucum, urucu

    See also

    • gûang (“to paint with achiote”)

    References

    1. ^ anonymous author (1622), “Almagra”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica (overall work in Portuguese), Piratininga; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, volume 1, São Paulo: USP, 1953, page 32: “Urucu [Uruku]”

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