Quito

See also: quito and quitó

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Quito. Named after the Quitu tribe. The name is a combination of two Tsafiki words: quitso (“center”) + to (“the world”); roughly translating as "center of the world."

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkitoʊ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkiːtəʊ/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• Homophone: keto
• Rhymes: -iːtəʊ

Proper noun

Quito

2. The capital city of Ecuador.
   • 2026 January 28, Chris Stein, “ICE thwarted from entering Ecuador’s consulate in Minneapolis by employee”, in The Guardian‎^[1], archived from the original on 29 January 2026:

     An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent attempted to enter Ecuador’s consulate in Minneapolis, but was turned back by an employee, prompting an official complaint to the US embassy in Quito, the country’s foreign ministry said.

3. The capital of Pichincha province, Ecuador
4. A canton (Quito Canton) in Pichincha province, Ecuador.
5. (historical) A historical province of colonial South America, corresponding to present-day Ecuador.
   • 1992, Edwin Williamson, The Penguin history of Latin America, London; New York: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 27:

     The conquest of the northern provinces of Quito was undertaken by one of Pizarro’s lieutenants, Sebastian de Benalcazar.

Translations

capital of Ecuador

• Arabic: كِيتُو f (kītū)
• Armenian: Կիտո (hy) (Kito)
• Asturian: Quitu (ast)
• Belarusian: Кі́та m (Kíta)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 基多 (zh) (Jīduō)

• Czech: Quito (cs) n
• Danish: Quito
• Dutch: Quito (nl) n
• Finnish: Quito (fi)
• French: Quito (fr) m
• Georgian: კიტო (ḳiṭo)
• German: Quito (de) n
• Greek: Κίτο (el) n (Kíto)
• Hebrew: קִיטוֹ f (kito)
• Hindi: कीटो (kīṭo)
• Irish: Caíteo m
• Japanese: キト (ja) (Kito)
• Khmer: គីតូ (km) (kiitou)
• Korean: 키토 (Kito)
• Macedonian: Ки́то m (Kíto)
• Persian: کیتو (kito)
• Polish: Quito (pl) n
• Portuguese: Quito (pt) f
• Quechua: Kitu
• Russian: Ки́то (ru) m (Kíto)
• Spanish: Quito (es) m
• Tagalog: Kito
• Thai: กีโต (gii-dtoo)
• Ukrainian: Кі́то n (Kíto)
• Vietnamese: Ki-tô

References

• Capello, Ernesto (2011): City at the Center of the World: Space, History, and Modernity in Quito

Anagrams

• quoit, toqui

Central Nahuatl

Proper noun

Quito

1. Quito (the capital city of Ecuador)

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɪto]

Proper noun

Quito n (relational adjective quitský)

1. Quito (the capital city of Ecuador)

Declension

Declension of Quito (sg-only hard neuter)

	singular
nominative	Quito
genitive	Quita
dative	Quitu
accusative	Quito
vocative	Quito
locative	Quitu
instrumental	Quitem

Further reading

• “Quito”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Quito. Named after the Quitu tribe. The name is a combination of two Tsafiki words: quitso (“center”) + to (“the world”); roughly translating as "center of the world."

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ki.to/

Proper noun

Quito f

1. Quito (the capital city of Ecuador)

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkfi.tɔ/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -itɔ
• Syllabification: Qui‧to

Proper noun

Quito n (indeclinable)

1. Quito (the capital city of Ecuador)

References

• Quito in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Quito. Named after the Quitu tribe. The name is a combination of two Tsafiki words: quitso (“center”) + to (“the world”); roughly translating as "center of the world."

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈki.tu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈki.tu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈki.to/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈki.tu/

• Rhymes: -itu
• Homophone: quito
• Hyphenation: Qui‧to

Proper noun

Quito ?

1. Quito (the capital city of Ecuador)

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kitɔ/, [ˈkitɔ]
• Rhymes: -itɔ
• Hyphenation: Qui‧to

Proper noun

Quito n (genitive singular Quita, declension pattern of mesto)

1. Quito (the capital city of Ecuador)

References

• “Quito”, in Slovníkový 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, 2003–2026

Spanish

Etymology

Named after the Quitu tribe. The name is a combination of two Tsafiki words: quitso (“center”) + to (“the world”); roughly translating as "center of the world."

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkito/ [ˈki.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ito
• Syllabification: Qui‧to

Proper noun

Quito m

1. Quito (the capital city of Ecuador)

Derived terms

• quiteño

Proper noun

Quito m or f by sense

1. a surname

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkiːtʊ/

Proper noun

Quito ? (genitive Quitos)

1. Quito (the capital city of Ecuador)