Etymology

saimiri

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Today it means: any member of Saimiri, a taxonomic genus of South American arboreal monkeys, a squirrel monkey Full definition →

Brazilian Portuguese saí-mirim
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  1. Brazilian Portuguese · borrowed fromsaí-mirim
  2. English todaysaimiri

Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese saí-mirim (literally “little monkey”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.