Save Type Settlement Usage English, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Slovak, Spanish Pronounced Pron. KEE-to(English, German, Italian, Slovak, Spanish) KEE-TO(French) KEE-too(Portuguese) [key·IPA] Meaning & History From the Quitu tribe, whose name is derived from the combination of the Tsafiki words quitso ("center") and to ("world"). This is the name of the capital city of Ecuador.