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cacao

See also: Cacao

English

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Cacao fruits on the tree

Etymology

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From Spanish cacao, from Classical Nahuatl cacahuatl. Doublet of cocoa.

Pronunciation

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  • (UK) IPA(key): /kəˈkɑːəʊ̯/, /kəˈkeɪ̯əʊ̯/, [kəˈkʰɑːəʊ̯], [kəˈkʰeɪ̯əʊ̯]
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • (US) IPA(key): /kəˈkaʊ̯/, /kəˈkeɪ̯oʊ̯/, [kəˈkʰaʊ̯], [kəˈkʰeɪ̯oʊ̯]
  • Rhymes: -aʊ

Noun

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cacao (countable and uncountable, plural cacaos)

  1. A tree, Theobroma cacao, whose seed is used to make chocolate.
  2. The seed of this tree, the cocoa bean.
  3. (rare) Cocoa (hot drink).
    • 1894, Eugene Murray-Aaron, The Butterfly Hunters in the Caribbees, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, pages 146 and 242:
      Therefore they left Port à Paix just as the first streaks of gray were appearing in the east, depending on a good hot cup of cacao and a couple of bananas to nourish them sufficiently until they could enjoy the breakfast that Dave would prepare for them at the end of their morning’s share of the day’s trip. […] “Doctor, we always say ‘cocoa’ in the north, but you and all these people where it grows say ‘cacao,’ I notice. How is that?” asked Hal. / “There are four very distinct vegetable growths that have names so much alike that they are constantly mixed in the minds of those who are not botanists or do not know them in nature,” the Doctor began. “These are: Cacao berries, Coca leaves, Coco roots, and Cocoa nuts. […]”
    • 1907 August, C[arl] V[ilhelm] Hartman, “Archeological Researches on the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica”, in W[illiam] J[acob] Holland, editor, Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum, volume III, number 1, Pittsburgh, Pa.: […] Carnegie Institute, pages 5 and 7:
      Cacao was copiously used at their feasts, being colored with the red seeds of the achiote, or arnotto (Bixa orellana Linnæus), so that it resembled blood. At the festivals an intoxicating beer of corn was also copiously used and the rolled leaves of tobacco were smoked. […] And the Indians, both men and women, continued to drink the above-mentioned beverage, going and coming with it, and in the course of this drinking there were brought large cups of cacao prepared as they are accustomed to drink it.
    • 1993 November, David Drake, The Sharp End (The Hammer’s Slammers Series; 6), Riverdale, N.Y.: Baen Books, →ISBN, pages 170 and 175:
      “I wouldn’t mind something to drink,” Niko Daun said clearly. “You say you’ve got local cacao?” […] He set down the mug of cacao from which he’d been sipping with evident approval.

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish cacao, from Classical Nahuatl cacahuatl.

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Noun

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cacao m (uncountable)

  1. cocoa [from late 16th c.]

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Descendants

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  • Berbice Creole Dutch: kaukau
  • Negerhollands: kwakwa
  • → Caribbean Hindustani: kakáu
  • → Indonesian: kakao
  • → Sranan Tongo: kakaw

French

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish cacao, ultimately from Classical Nahuatl cacahuatl.

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cacao m (plural cacaos)

  1. cocoa

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Italian

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Italian Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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From Spanish cacao.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /kaˈka.o/
  • Rhymes: -ao
  • Hyphenation: ca‧cà‧o

Noun

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cacao m (invariable)

  1. cocoa

Further reading

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  • cacao in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  • cacao in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French cacao; itself from Spanish cacao.

Noun

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cacao f (uncountable)

  1. cocoa

Declension

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declension of cacao (singular only)
singular
f gender indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (o) cacao cacaua
genitive/dative (unei) cacao cacauei
vocative

Spanish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl cacahuatl (“cacao bean”). Doublet of cocoa.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /kaˈkao/ [kaˈka.o]
  • Audio (Spain):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ao
  • Syllabification: ca‧ca‧o

Noun

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cacao m (plural cacaos)

  1. cacao tree
    Synonym: cacaotero
  2. cocoa bean, cocoa powder
  3. (colloquial) confusion
    Synonyms: desorden, confusión
    cacao mental ― bewilderment, discombobulation

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