Quito
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed fromSpanishQuito. Named after theQuitu tribe. The name is a combination of twoTsafiki words:quitso(“center”) +to(“the world”); roughly translating as "center of the world."
Pronunciation
edit- (General American)IPA(key):/ˈkitoʊ/
- (Received Pronunciation)IPA(key):/ˈkiːtəʊ/
Audio(Southern England): (file)
- Homophone:keto
- Rhymes:-iːtəʊ
Proper noun
editQuito
- Thecapital city ofEcuador.
- (historical) A historicalprovince of colonialSouth America, corresponding to present-dayEcuador.
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References
edit- Capello, Ernesto (2011): City at the Center of the World: Space, History, and Modernity in Quito
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editCentral Nahuatl
editProper noun
editQuito
- Quito (thecapital city ofEcuador)
Czech
editPronunciation
editProper noun
editQuito n (relational adjectivequitský)
- Quito (thecapital city ofEcuador)
Declension
editFurther reading
edit- “Quito”, inInternetová jazyková příručka (in Czech),2008–2025
French
editEtymology
editBorrowed fromSpanishQuito. Named after theQuitu tribe. The name is a combination of twoTsafiki words:quitso(“center”) +to(“the world”); roughly translating as "center of the world."
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editQuito f
- Quito (thecapital city ofEcuador)
Polish
editPronunciation
editProper noun
editQuito n (indeclinable)
- Quito (thecapital city ofEcuador)
References
edit- Quito in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
editEtymology
editBorrowed fromSpanishQuito. Named after theQuitu tribe. The name is a combination of twoTsafiki words:quitso(“center”) +to(“the world”); roughly translating as "center of the world."
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editQuito
- Quito (thecapital city ofEcuador)
Slovak
editPronunciation
editProper noun
editQuito n (genitivesingularQuita,declension pattern ofmesto)
- Quito (thecapital city ofEcuador)
References
edit- “Quito”, inSlovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak),https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk,2003–2025
Spanish
editEtymology
editNamed after theQuitu tribe. The name is a combination of twoTsafiki words:quitso(“center”) +to(“the world”); roughly translating as "center of the world."
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editQuito m
- Quito (thecapital city ofEcuador)
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editSwedish
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editProper noun
editQuito
- Quito (thecapital city ofEcuador)
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