Given name & surname
Araci
“bee”·“mother”
Araci is a unisex given name from Old Tupi. It is used in Portuguese.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Araci is built from elements meaning “bee” and “mother”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
Built from Old Tupi eíra (“bee”) + sy (“mother”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Coined by Brazilian writer José de Alencar.
Araci’s family of names
In Portuguese usage, Araci shares an earlier linguistic root with IRACI. In Portuguese usage, Araci has a related form in ARACY.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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