tomatillo
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Tomatilloes on a table
Tomatillos
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish tomatillo, diminutive of tomate (“tomato”), ultimately from Classical Nahuatl tomatl.
Pronunciation
Noun
tomatillo (plural tomatillos or tomatilloes)
- A plant of the nightshade family originating in Mexico, Physalis philadelphica, cultivated for its tomato-like green to green-purple fruit surrounded by a thin papery skin.
Translations
Physalis philadelphica
See also
Finnish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
tomatillo
Declension
| Inflection of tomatillo (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | tomatillo | tomatillot | |
| genitive | tomatillon | tomatillojen | |
| partitive | tomatilloa | tomatilloja | |
| illative | tomatilloon | tomatilloihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | tomatillo | tomatillot | |
| accusative | nom. | tomatillo | tomatillot |
| gen. | tomatillon | ||
| genitive | tomatillon | tomatillojen | |
| partitive | tomatilloa | tomatilloja | |
| inessive | tomatillossa | tomatilloissa | |
| elative | tomatillosta | tomatilloista | |
| illative | tomatilloon | tomatilloihin | |
| adessive | tomatillolla | tomatilloilla | |
| ablative | tomatillolta | tomatilloilta | |
| allative | tomatillolle | tomatilloille | |
| essive | tomatillona | tomatilloina | |
| translative | tomatilloksi | tomatilloiksi | |
| abessive | tomatillotta | tomatilloitta | |
| instructive | — | tomatilloin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Hypernyms
Derived terms
Spanish
Etymology
From tomate + -illo, from Classical Nahuatl tomatl.
Pronunciation
- Syllabification: to‧ma‧ti‧llo
Noun
tomatillo m (plural tomatillos)
- tomatillo (fruit vegetable)
- diminutive of tomate
- Synonym: tomatito
Further reading
- “tomatillo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10