Colorado
See also: colorado
English edit
Etymology edit
From Spanish colorado (“red, ruddy, colored”), usually from the reddish appearance of some silt-laden rivers, or from Portuguese colorado in the case of Brazilian locations.
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) IPA(key): /kɑləˈɹɑdoʊ/, /kɑləˈɹædoʊ/[1]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kɒləˈɹɑːdəʊ/
- (obsolete) IPA(key): /kɒləˈɹeɪdoʊ/[2]
Audio (US /kɑləˈrɑdoʊ/ variant) (file) Audio (US /kɑləˈrædoʊ/ variant) (file) - Rhymes: -ɑːdəʊ, -ædəʊ
Proper noun edit
Colorado
- A major river of western North America, running from the Rocky Mountains in the United States to the Gulf of California in Mexico.
- Meronym: humpback chub
- A state in the western United States, the 38th state. Capital and largest city: Denver.
- 1878, "Colorado", Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. VI, p. 162:
- The mountains of Colorado were, till a comparatively recent date, richly clothed with forest; but owing partly to natural causes, and still more to the lavish consumption and reckless destruction of the early settlers, the quantity of growing timber in the State is exceedingly small, and before long, if restorative measures are not adopted, the Colorado demand for wood will require to be supplied from without. Whole mountain sides often present the appearance of monstrous cheavaux-de-frise, the dead trunks of the wind-thrown pines being tossed about in all directions.
- 1878, "Colorado", Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. VI, p. 162:
- A river in Texas in the United States, flowing into the Gulf of Mexico.
- A river in southern Argentina, running from the Andes into the Atlantic.
- Several settlements in the Americas.
- A municipality of Paraná, Brazil.
- A municipality of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
- A village in the Dominican Republic.
- An unincorporated community in Texas, United States.
- (historical) The Territory of Colorado, a former territory of the United States.
- (historical) A ghost town in California, United States.
Derived terms edit
- CO
- Coloradan
- Coloradoan
- Colorado beetle
- Colorado bristlecone pine (Pinus aristata)
- Colorado bur (Solanum rostratum)
- Colorado City
- Colorado County
- Colorado Desert
- Colorado fir
- Colorado four o'clock (Mirabilis multiflora)
- Colorado pinyon (Pinus edulis)
- Colorado Plateau
- Colorado potato beetle
- Colorado River
- Colorado soldier beetle (Chauliognathus basalis)
- Colorado Springs
- Colorado spruce (Picea pungens)
- Colorado topaz
- Little Colorado
Translations edit
major river
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US state
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See also edit
States: Alabama · Alaska · Arizona · Arkansas · California · Colorado · Connecticut · Delaware · Florida · Georgia · Hawaii · Idaho · Illinois · Indiana · Iowa · Kansas · Kentucky · Louisiana · Maine · Maryland · Massachusetts · Michigan · Minnesota · Mississippi · Missouri · Montana · Nebraska · Nevada · New Hampshire · New Jersey · New Mexico · New York · North Carolina · North Dakota · Ohio · Oklahoma · Oregon · Pennsylvania · Rhode Island · South Carolina · South Dakota · Tennessee · Texas · Utah · Vermont · Virginia · Washington · West Virginia · Wisconsin · Wyoming |
Federal District: Washington, D.C. |
Territories: American Samoa · Guam · Northern Mariana Islands · Puerto Rico · United States minor outlying islands · United States Virgin Islands |
References edit
- ^ Both variants are found among Colorado natives.
- ^ Hall, Joseph Sargent (1942 March 2) “2. The Vowel Sounds of Unstressed and Partially Stressed Syllables”, in The Phonetics of Great Smoky Mountain Speech (American Speech: Reprints and Monographs; 4), New York: King's Crown Press, , →ISBN, § III.5, page 81.
Further reading edit
- Colorado on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Colorado on Wikiquote.Wikiquote
- Colorado on Wikivoyage.Wikivoyage
- Category:Colorado on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Catalan edit
Proper noun edit
Colorado m
- Colorado (a state of the United States)
Central Nahuatl edit
Proper noun edit
Colorado
- Colorado (a state of the United States)
Danish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English Colorado.
Proper noun edit
Colorado (genitive Colorados)
- Colorado (a state of the United States)
Finnish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Colorado
- Colorado (a state of the United States)
Declension edit
Inflection of Colorado (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Colorado | — | ||
genitive | Coloradon | — | ||
partitive | Coloradoa | — | ||
illative | Coloradoon | — | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Colorado | — | ||
accusative | nom. | Colorado | — | |
gen. | Coloradon | |||
genitive | Coloradon | — | ||
partitive | Coloradoa | — | ||
inessive | Coloradossa | — | ||
elative | Coloradosta | — | ||
illative | Coloradoon | — | ||
adessive | Coloradolla | — | ||
ablative | Coloradolta | — | ||
allative | Coloradolle | — | ||
essive | Coloradona | — | ||
translative | Coloradoksi | — | ||
abessive | Coloradotta | — | ||
instructive | — | — | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Derived terms edit
compounds
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English Colorado.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
le Colorado m
- The Colorado River (a major river of western North America, running from the Rocky Mountains in the United States to the Gulf of California in Mexico.)
- Colorado (a state of the United States)
- Hypernym: État
- Holonym: États-Unis
Derived terms edit
German edit
Etymology edit
From Spanish colorado, partly through English Colorado.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Colorado n (proper noun, genitive Colorados or (optionally with an article) Colorado)
- Colorado (a state of the United States)
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English Colorado, from Spanish colorado.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Colorado m
- Colorado (a state of the United States)
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: Co‧lo‧ra‧do
Proper noun edit
Colorado m
- Colorado (a river in North America, located between the United States and Mexico)
- Colorado (a state of the United States)
- A town and municipality of Paraná, Brazil
- A town and municipality of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Romanian edit
Proper noun edit
Colorado n
- Colorado (a state of the United States)
Slovak edit
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Colorado n (genitive singular Colorada, declension pattern of mesto)
- Colorado (a state of the United States)
References edit
- “Colorado”, 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, 2024
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Colorado m
- Colorado (a state of the United States)
Related terms edit
See also edit
- Colorado on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es