tití

marmoset

noun tee-TEE Rare

Origin: From an indigenous South American language via Portuguese.

Usage Note

Tití refers to small New World monkeys of the family Callitrichidae, commonly called marmosets or tamarins. Because it ends in a stressed vowel, it carries a written accent on the final syllable: tití. The plural is titís, and the word is mainly found in Latin American Spanish.

Examples

"El tití saltó de rama en rama."

Natural Translation

The marmoset jumped from branch to branch.

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