tomate

See also: Tomate, tomaté, tomáte, and tómate

Asturian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /toˈmate/, [t̪oˈma.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ate
• Hyphenation: to‧ma‧te

Noun

tomate m (plural tomates)

1. tomato

Basque

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tomate/ [t̪o.ma.t̪e]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ate
• Hyphenation: to‧ma‧te

Noun

tomate inan

1. tomato

Declension

Declension of tomate (inanimate, ending in vowel)

	indefinite	singular	plural
absolutive	tomate	tomatea	tomateak
ergative	tomatek	tomateak	tomateek
dative	tomateri	tomateari	tomateei
genitive	tomateren	tomatearen	tomateen
comitative	tomaterekin	tomatearekin	tomateekin
causative	tomaterengatik	tomatearengatik	tomateengatik
benefactive	tomaterentzat	tomatearentzat	tomateentzat
instrumental	tomatez	tomateaz	tomateez
inessive	tomatetan	tomatean	tomateetan
locative	tomatetako	tomateko	tomateetako
allative	tomatetara	tomatera	tomateetara
terminative	tomatetaraino	tomateraino	tomateetaraino
directive	tomatetarantz	tomaterantz	tomateetarantz
destinative	tomatetarako	tomaterako	tomateetarako
ablative	tomatetatik	tomatetik	tomateetatik
partitive	tomaterik	—	—
prolative	tomatetzat	—	—

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɔ.mat/
• (Burkina Faso) IPA^(key): /tamati/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -at
• Homophone: tomates

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish tomate, from Classical Nahuatl tomatl.

Noun

tomate f (plural tomates)

1. tomato (plant)

   Synonym: tomatier

2. tomato (fruit)

   Synonym: (obsolete) pomme d’amour

Derived terms

• rouge comme une tomate
• sauce tomate
• tomate cerise
• tomate italienne
• tomater
• tomatier

 

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: tomat
• → Sedang: tơmat

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

tomate

1. inflection of tomater:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative
   2. first-person singular present subjunctive
   3. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “tomate”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Galician

o tomate (a tomato)

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tomate, from Classical Nahuatl tomatl (“tomatillo”), the tomato proper being xītomatl.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

tomate m (plural tomates)

1. tomato (fruit)

   Pois temos sopa de fideos, cocido, merluza frita e língoa con tomate.

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Related terms

• tomateira

Interlingua

Etymology

From Spanish tomate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /toˈmate/

Noun

tomate (plural tomates)

1. tomato

Portuguese

tomates

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tomate, from Classical Nahuatl tomatl (“tomatillo”), the tomato proper being xītomatl.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /toˈma.t͡ʃi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /toˈma.t͡ʃi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /toˈma.te/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /tuˈma.tɨ/

• Hyphenation: to‧ma‧te

Noun

tomate m (plural tomates)

1. tomato (fruit of the tomato plant)
2. (humorous) a blushed face
3. (mildly vulgar, usually in the plural) ball (testicle; compare colhão)

Derived terms

• tomatão (augmentative)
• tomateiro
• tomatezinho (diminutives)
• tomatinho (diminutive)

 

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /toˈmate/ [t̪oˈma.t̪e]

• Audio (Spain):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ate
• Syllabification: to‧ma‧te

Etymology 1

Deverbal from tomar.

Un tomate

Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl tomatl (“tomatillo”), the tomato proper being xītomatl.

Noun

tomate m (plural tomates)

1. tomato (plant)

   Synonyms: (Mexico) jitomatera, tomatera

2. tomato (fruit)

   Synonym: (Mexico) jitomate

3. (Mexico) tomatillo
4. hole (in a sock or shoe)
5. (colloquial, Chile) a hair bun, or a short ponytail

   Synonyms: rodete, moño

6. (colloquial) fight

   Synonyms: lucha, pelea, riña

Derived terms

• entomatada
• salsa de tomate
• tomate cherry
• tomate de árbol
• tomate de colgar
• tomatera
• tomatero
• tomatillo

 

Related terms

• jitomate

 

Descendants

• → Bikol Central: kamatis
• → Catalan: tomata, tomaca, tomàquet
• → Cebuano: kamatis
• → Danish: tomat
  • → Faroese: tomat
  • → Swedish: tomat
• → English: tomato (see there for further descendants)
• → Estonian: tomat
• → French: tomate
• → German: Tomate
• → Hiligaynon: kamatis
• → Interlingua: tomate
• → Karao: kamatis
• → Portuguese: tomate
• → Russian: томат (tomat)
  • → Armenian: տոմատ (tomat)
  • → Georgian: ტომატი (ṭomaṭi)
  • → Uzbek: tomat
  • → Yakut: томат (tomat)
• → Tagalog: kamatis
  • → Hokkien: 柑仔得 (kam-á-tit), 柑仔蜜 (kam-á-bi̍t)
• → Norwegian:
  • Norwegian Bokmål: tomat
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: tomat
• → Volapük: tomat
• → Waray-Waray: kamatis

Etymology 2

Verb

tomate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of tomar combined with te

Further reading

• “tomate”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014