cacao
See also: Cacao
English edit
Etymology edit
From Spanish cacao, from Classical Nahuatl cacahuatl. Doublet of cocoa.
Pronunciation edit
- (UK) IPA(key): /kəˈkɑːəʊ̯/, /kəˈkeɪ̯əʊ̯/, [kəˈkʰɑːəʊ̯], [kəˈkʰeɪ̯əʊ̯]
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (US) IPA(key): /kəˈkaʊ̯/, /kəˈkeɪ̯oʊ̯/, [kəˈkʰaʊ̯], [kəˈkʰeɪ̯oʊ̯]
- Rhymes: -aʊ
Noun edit
cacao (countable and uncountable, plural cacaos)
- A tree, Theobroma cacao, whose seed is used to make chocolate.
- The seed of this tree, the cocoa bean.
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cacao tree
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cocoa bean
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Further reading edit
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Alternative forms edit
- cacau (obsolete)
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish cacao, from Classical Nahuatl cacahuatl.
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cacao m (uncountable)
- cocoa [from late 16th c.]
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French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish cacao, ultimately from Classical Nahuatl cacahuatl.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cacao m (plural cacaos)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “cacao”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Etymology edit
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cacao m (invariable)
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Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French cacao; itself from Spanish cacao.
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cacao f (uncountable)
Declension edit
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl cacahuatl (“cacao bean”). Doublet of cocoa.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cacao m (plural cacaos)
- cacao tree
- Synonym: cacaotero
- cocoa bean, cocoa powder
- (colloquial) confusion
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Descendants edit
- → Albanian: kakao
- → Aromanian: cacauã
- → Bikol Central: kakaw
- → Catalan: cacau
- → Cebuano: kakaw
- → Czech: kakao
- → Danish: kakao
- → Dutch: cacao (see there for further descendants)
- → English: cacao, cocoa
- → Estonian: kakao
- → Finnish: kaakao
- → French: cacao
- → German: Kakao
- → Greek: κακάο (kakáo)
- → Icelandic: kakó
- → Indonesian: kakao
- → Latvian: kakao
- → Limburgish: keków
- → Lingala: kaukau
- → Lower Sorbian: kakaw, kakawa
- → Polish: kakao
- → Portuguese: cacau
- → Romagnol: cacào
- → Romanian: cacao
- → Slovak: kakao
- → Swedish: kakao
- → Tagalog: kakaw
- → Tongan: koko
- → Turkish: kakao
- → Uzbek: kakao
- → Vietnamese: cacao
Further reading edit
- “cacao”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- cacao on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es