avocado
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from American Spanish avocado, altered—by folk-etymological association with abogado (“lawyer”)—from the earlier aguacate, which comes from Classical Nahuatl āhuacatl (“avocado”). (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?) Doublet of abacate.
The first mention can be found in the 1696 catalogue of Jamaican plants.[1]
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ævəˈkɑːdəʊ/
- (General American) enPR: ăvəkäʹdō, IPA(key): /ɑvəˈkɑdoʊ/, [ɑvəˈkɑɾoʊ], /ævəˈkɑdoʊ/, [ævəˈkɑɾoʊ]
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɑːdəʊ
NounEdit
avocado (countable and uncountable, plural avocados or avocadoes)
- The large, usually yellowish-green or black, pulpy fruit of the avocado tree.
- Synonyms: alligator pear, avocado pear, butter pear, butter fruit, abacate
- The avocado tree, Persea americana, of the laurel family.
- (color, chiefly uncountable) A dark chartreuse colour, like the colour of the skin of an avocado.
- avocado:
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- → Irish: abhacád
TranslationsEdit
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AdjectiveEdit
avocado (not comparable)
TranslationsEdit
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See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Hans Sloane (1696) Catalogus plantarum quae in insula Jamaica[1] (in Latin)
Further readingEdit
- avocado on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Persea americana on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Persea americana on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- avocado at USDA Plants database
- “Avocado” in Michael Quinion, Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds: Ingenious Tales of Words and Their Origins, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books in association with Penguin Books, 2004, →ISBN.
- cookbook:avocado on Wikibooks.Wikibooks
DanishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Spanish aguacate, from Nahuatl āhuacatl (“avocado”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
avocado c (singular definite avocadoen, plural indefinite avocadoer)
InflectionEdit
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | avocado | avocadoen | avocadoer | avocadoerne |
genitive | avocados | avocadoens | avocadoers | avocadoernes |
DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Spanish avocado.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
avocado m (plural avocado's)
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
ItalianEdit
PronunciationEdit
- Rhymes: -ado
NounEdit
avocado m (invariable)
SpanishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From aguacate, possibly influenced by a Caribbean language.
NounEdit
avocado m (plural avocados)
- (Philippines) avocado
- Synonym: aguacate
DescendantsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
VerbEdit
avocado m (feminine singular avocada, masculine plural avocados, feminine plural avocadas)
- Masculine singular past participle of avocar.
Further readingEdit
- “avocado” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.