Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of an extinct South American Indian people of northeast Venezuela.
- noun The Cariban language of the Cumanagoto.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It yields a whitish liquid, and very odoriferous resin, which was formerly employed by the Cumanagoto and Tagiri Indians, to perfume their idols.
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Margareta, be Guaiquerean, as we have no reason to doubt, it exhibits a feature of analogy with the Cumanagoto tongue, which approaches the
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We anchored for some hours in the road of New Barcelona, at the mouth of the river Neveri, of which the Indian (Cumanagoto) name is Enipiricuar.
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In 1637 Urpin founded, two leagues farther inland, the Spanish town of Nueva Barcelona, which he peopled with some of the inhabitants of Cumanagoto, together with some
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Piritu be of different races, when both speak the Cumanagoto language, which is the prevailing tongue in the western part of the Govierno of
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The termination cuar, found so often in Cumanagoto and Caribbean names, means
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* The ancient town of Cumanagoto is celebrated in the country for a miraculous image of the Virgin, * which the
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As our maps often mark two towns, Barcelona and Cumanagoto, instead of one, and as the two names are considered as synonymous, it may be well to explain the cause of this error.
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It yields a whitish liquid, and very odoriferous resin, which was formerly employed by the Cumanagoto and Tagiri Indians, to perfume their idols.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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On this spot the village of La Concepcion de Piritu was founded in 1556; it is the chief settlement of the Cumanagoto
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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