Colorado
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Map of the continental US highlighting Colorado
See also: colorado
English
Etymology
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.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /kɑləˈɹɑdoʊ/, /kɑləˈɹædoʊ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kɒləˈɹɑːdəʊ/
- (obsolete) IPA(key): /kɒləˈɹeɪdoʊ/
Audio (US /kɑləˈrɑdoʊ/ variant) (file) Audio (US /kɑləˈrædoʊ/ variant) (file) - Rhymes: -ɑːdəʊ, -ædəʊ
Proper noun
Colorado
- A major river of western North America, running from the Rocky Mountains in the United States to the Gulf of California in Mexico.
- Meronym: humpback chub
- 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 terms
- CO
- Coloradan
- Coloradoan
- Colorado beetle
- Colorado bristlecone pine (Pinus aristata)
- Colorado bur (Solanum rostratum)
- Colorado City
- Colorado County
- Colorado Desert
- Colorado fir
- Colorado four o'clock (Mirabilis multiflora)
- Colorado pinyon (Pinus edulis)
- Colorado Plateau
- Colorado potato beetle
- Colorado River
- Colorado soldier beetle (Chauliognathus basalis)
- Colorado Springs
- Colorado spruce (Picea pungens)
- Colorado topaz
- Little Colorado
Translations
major river
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US state
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See also
| 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 |
References
- ^ Both variants are found among Colorado natives.
- ^ Hall, Joseph Sargent (1942 March 2) “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.
Further reading
Colorado on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Colorado on Wikiquote.Wikiquote 
Colorado on Wikivoyage.Wikivoyage 
Category:Colorado on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Catalan
Proper noun
Colorado m
- Colorado (a state of the United States)
Central Nahuatl
Proper noun
Colorado
- Colorado (a state of the United States)
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from English Colorado.
Proper noun
Colorado (genitive Colorados)
- Colorado (a state of the United States)
Finnish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Colorado
- Colorado (a state of the United States)
Declension
| 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 | — | ||
| abessive | Coloradotta | — | ||
| instructive | — | — | ||
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | |||
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Derived terms
compounds
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English Colorado.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
le Colorado m
- The Colorado River (a major river of western North America, running from the Rocky Mountains in the United States to the Gulf of California in Mexico.)
- Colorado (a state of the United States)
- Hypernym: État
- Holonym: États-Unis
Derived terms
German
Etymology
From Spanish colorado, partly through English Colorado.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Colorado n (proper noun, genitive Colorados or (optionally with an article) Colorado)
- Colorado (a state of the United States)
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English Colorado, from Spanish colorado.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Colorado m
- Colorado (a state of the United States)
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: Co‧lo‧ra‧do
Proper noun
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
Romanian
Proper noun
Colorado n
- Colorado (a state of the United States)
Slovak
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Colorado n (genitive singular Colorada, declension pattern of mesto)
- Colorado (a state of the United States)
References
- “Colorado”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
Spanish
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Colorado m
- Colorado (a state of the United States)
Related terms
See also
- Colorado on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es