† mitun.

Forms: 1600s mutu, 1600s–1800s mitu.

Origin: A borrowing from Portuguese. Etymon: Portuguese mitu.

Etymology: Brazilian Portuguese mitu (also mutu , mutum , †mutù : compare mutum n.) < Tupi mytum (also mutum), originally in sense ‘dark, black’ < pytun night, dark, black. Compare scientific Latin mitu, species name, and later Mitu, genus name; Mitu mitu is the Alagoas curassow.The form mouton is also attested in English in the following quotation, as an isolated early borrowing from the French of Jean de Léry (1578):1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes IV. vii. iii. 1329 Besides, there are two kindes of most exquisite and choice Birds, which are named Mouton, of the bignesse of Peacocks. N.E.D. (1907) gives the pronunciation as (mi·tiu) /ˈmɪtjuː/.

Ornithology. Obsolete.

A kind of curassow (not identified). Cf. mutum n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > [noun] > family Cracidae > member of genus Crax (curassow)

mitu1625

mituporanga1678

curassow1699

1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes IV. vii. i. 1306 The Hen Mutu is very domesticall, it hath a combe llike the Cockes, spotted with white and blacke.

1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. ii. 160 The Brasilian Mitu or Mutu of Marggrave.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Mitu, or Mitu-Porangu;..a Brasilian bird of the pheasant-kind, according to Marggrave,..but supposed by Mr. Ray, rather to approach to the nature of the peacock, or turkey-cock.

1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Mitu, a fowl of the turkey kind, found in Brazil.]

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	mitu
释义	† mitun. Forms: 1600s mutu, 1600s–1800s mitu. Origin: A borrowing from Portuguese. Etymon: Portuguese mitu. Etymology: Brazilian Portuguese mitu (also mutu , mutum , †mutù : compare mutum n.) < Tupi mytum (also mutum), originally in sense ‘dark, black’ < pytun night, dark, black. Compare scientific Latin mitu, species name, and later Mitu, genus name; Mitu mitu is the Alagoas curassow.The form mouton is also attested in English in the following quotation, as an isolated early borrowing from the French of Jean de Léry (1578):1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes IV. vii. iii. 1329 Besides, there are two kindes of most exquisite and choice Birds, which are named Mouton, of the bignesse of Peacocks. N.E.D. (1907) gives the pronunciation as (mi·tiu) /ˈmɪtjuː/. Ornithology. Obsolete. A kind of curassow (not identified). Cf. mutum n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > [noun] > family Cracidae > member of genus Crax (curassow) mitu1625 mituporanga1678 curassow1699 1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes IV. vii. i. 1306 The Hen Mutu is very domesticall, it hath a combe llike the Cockes, spotted with white and blacke. 1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. ii. 160 The Brasilian Mitu or Mutu of Marggrave. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Mitu, or Mitu-Porangu;..a Brasilian bird of the pheasant-kind, according to Marggrave,..but supposed by Mr. Ray, rather to approach to the nature of the peacock, or turkey-cock. 1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Mitu, a fowl of the turkey kind, found in Brazil.] This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1625
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