cacau
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cacau
Catalan
Pronunciation
Noun
cacau m (plural cacaus)
- cacao
- cocoa bean
- mantega de cacau ― cocoa butter
- (soccer) power shot
- (colloquial, Castilianism) disorder, mess
- fer un cacau ― to make a mess
Related terms
Further reading
- “cacau” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
- “cacau” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “cacau”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
- “cacau” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
Portuguese
Alternative forms
Etymology
From earlier cacáo, borrowed from Spanish cacao, from Classical Nahuatl cacahuatl (“cacao bean”).[1]
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -aw
- Hyphenation: ca‧cau
Noun
cacau m (plural cacaus)
- cacao tree (Theobroma cacao)
- Synonym: cacaueiro
- cacao fruit
- cocoa bean
- cocoa powder
- (Portugal) hot chocolate; cocoa
- Synonym: chocolate quente
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Nheengatu: kakáu
References
- ^ “cacau”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025