Colorado
See also: colorado
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
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.
PronunciationEdit
- (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 nounEdit
Colorado
- A major river of western North America, running from the Rocky Mountains in the United States to the Gulf of California in Mexico.
- 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 termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
major river
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US state
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See alsoEdit
| 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 |
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Both variants are found among Colorado natives.
- ^ Hall, Joseph Sargent (March 2, 1942), “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.
CatalanEdit
Proper nounEdit
Colorado ?
- Colorado (a state of the United States)
Central NahuatlEdit
Proper nounEdit
Colorado
- Colorado (a state of the United States)
DanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from English Colorado.
Proper nounEdit
Colorado (genitive Colorados)
- Colorado (a state of the United States)
FinnishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
Proper nounEdit
Colorado
- Colorado (a state of the United States)
DeclensionEdit
| 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 | — | ||
| instructive | — | — | ||
| abessive | Coloradotta | — | ||
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | |||
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GermanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Spanish colorado, partly through English Colorado.
PronunciationEdit
Proper nounEdit
Colorado n (proper noun, genitive Colorados or (optionally with an article) Colorado)
- Colorado (a state of the United States)
ItalianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from English Colorado, from Spanish colorado.
PronunciationEdit
Proper nounEdit
Colorado m
- Colorado (a state of the United States)
PortugueseEdit
PronunciationEdit
- Hyphenation: Co‧lo‧ra‧do
Proper nounEdit
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
RomanianEdit
Proper nounEdit
Colorado n
- Colorado (a state of the United States)
SlovakEdit
PronunciationEdit
Proper nounEdit
Colorado n (genitive singular Colorada, declension pattern of mesto)
- Colorado (a state of the United States)
ReferencesEdit
- Colorado in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk
SpanishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Proper nounEdit
Colorado m
- Colorado (a state of the United States)
Related termsEdit
See alsoEdit
Colorado on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es
