avocado
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin American Spanish avocado, from the earlier aguacate, which comes from Classical Nahuatl āhuacatl (“avocado”).[1] (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?) Doublet of abacate. Compare aguacatillo, avocadillo.
The first mention can be found in the 1696 catalogue of Jamaican plants.[2]
Pronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ævəˈkɑːdəʊ/
- (General American) enPR: ăvəkäʹdō, IPA(key): /ɑvəˈkɑdoʊ/, [ɑvəˈkɑɾoʊ], /ævəˈkɑdoʊ/, [ævəˈkɑɾoʊ]
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɑːdəʊ
Noun
editavocado (countable and uncountable, plural avocados or avocadoes)
- The large, usually yellowish-green or black, savory fruit of the avocado tree.
- Synonyms: alligator pear, avocado pear, butter pear, butter fruit, abacate
- The avocado tree, Persea americana, of the laurel family.
- (chiefly uncountable) A dark chartreuse colour, like the colour of the skin of an avocado.
- avocado:
- 2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 57:
- It was exactly the same as my bathroom. Same cork floor, same avocado bathroom set.
Hypernyms
editDerived terms
editDescendants
edit- → Icelandic: avókadó
- → Irish: abhacád
- → Venda: ḽiafukhada
- → Welsh: afocado
Translations
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Adjective
editavocado (not comparable)
Translations
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See also
editReferences
edit- ^ “aguacate”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- ^ Hans Sloane (1696) Catalogus plantarum quae in insula Jamaica[1] (in Latin)
Further reading
edit- avocado on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Persea americana on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Persea americana on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- avocado at USDA Plants database
- Michael Quinion (2004) “Avocado”, in Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds: Ingenious Tales of Words and Their Origins, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books in association with Penguin Books, →ISBN.
- cookbook:avocado on Wikibooks.Wikibooks
Danish
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Spanish aguacate, from Nahuatl āhuacatl (“avocado”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editavocado c (singular definite avocadoen, plural indefinite avocadoer)
Inflection
editcommon gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | avocado | avocadoen | avocadoer | avocadoerne |
genitive | avocados | avocadoens | avocadoers | avocadoernes |
Dutch
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Spanish avocado.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editavocado m (plural avocado's)
Derived terms
editDescendants
editItalian
editPronunciation
editNoun
editavocado m (invariable)
Portuguese
editParticiple
editavocado (feminine avocada, masculine plural avocados, feminine plural avocadas)
- past participle of avocar
Romanian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from English avocado.
Noun
editavocado m (plural avocado)
Declension
editsingular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) avocado | avocadoul | (niște) avocado | avocadoi |
genitive/dative | (unui) avocado | avocadoului | (unor) avocado | avocadolor |
vocative | avocadoule | avocadolor |
Spanish
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editFrom aguacate, possibly influenced by a Caribbean language.
Noun
editavocado m (plural avocados)
- (Philippines, US) avocado
Descendants
edit- → Asi: abokado
- → Cebuano: abokado
- → Danish: avocado, avokado
- → Dutch: avocado
- → English: avocado
- → Icelandic: avókadó
- → Irish: abhacád
- → Venda: ḽiafukhada
- → Welsh: afocado
- → Faroese: avokado
- → French: avocat
- → German: Avocado
- → Italian: avocado
- → Hiligaynon: abokado
- → Serbo-Croatian: avokádo
- → Tagalog: abokado
- → Turkish: avokado
Etymology 2
editParticiple
editavocado (feminine avocada, masculine plural avocados, feminine plural avocadas)
- past participle of avocar
Further reading
edit- “avocado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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