avocado

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English

An avocado

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin American Spanish avocado, from the earlier aguacate, which comes from Classical Nahuatl āhuacatl (“avocado”).

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(Can this(+) etymology be sourced?) Doublet of abacate. Compare aguacatillo, avocadillo.

The first mention can be found in the 1696 catalogue of Jamaican plants.

Pronunciation

Noun

avocado (countable and uncountable, plural avocados or avocadoes)

  1. The large, usually yellowish-green or black, savory fruit of the avocado tree.
    Synonyms: alligator pear, avocado pear, butter pear, butter fruit, abacate
  2. The avocado tree, Persea americana, of the laurel family.
  3. (chiefly uncountable) A dark chartreuse colour, like the colour of the skin of an avocado.
    avocado:  

Hypernyms

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Icelandic: avókadó
  • → Irish: abhacád

Translations

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Adjective

avocado (not comparable)

  1. Of a dull yellowish-green colour.

Translations

See also

References

  1. ^ “aguacate”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
  2. ^ Hans Sloane (1696) Catalogus plantarum quae in insula Jamaica‎ (in Latin)

Further reading

Danish

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Alternative forms

Etymology

From Spanish aguacate, from Nahuatl āhuacatl (“avocado”).

Pronunciation

Noun

avocado c (singular definite avocadoen, plural indefinite avocadoer)

  1. avocado

Inflection

Declension of avocado
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative avocado avocadoen avocadoer avocadoerne
genitive avocados avocadoens avocadoers avocadoernes

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish avocado.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌaː.voːˈkaː.doː/
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: avo‧ca‧do

Noun

avocado m (plural avocado's)

  1. avocado, alligator pear

Derived terms

Descendants

Italian

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a.voˈka.do/
  • Rhymes: -ado
  • Hyphenation: a‧vo‧cà‧do

Noun

avocado m (invariable)

  1. avocado

Portuguese

Participle

avocado (feminine avocada, masculine plural avocados, feminine plural avocadas)

  1. past participle of avocar

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English avocado.

Noun

avocado m (plural avocado)

  1. avocado

Declension

Declension of avocado
singular plural
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

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From aguacate, possibly influenced by a Caribbean language.

Noun

avocado m (plural avocados)

  1. (Philippines) avocado
    Synonyms: aguacate, (Argentina, Chile, Peru, Uruguay) palta, (Colombia, dated) cura
Descendants

Etymology 2

Participle

avocado (feminine avocada, masculine plural avocados, feminine plural avocadas)

  1. past participle of avocar

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