avocado
See also: Avocado
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin American Spanish avocado, from the earlier aguacate, which comes from Classical Nahuatl āhuacatl (“avocado”).[1] (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?) Doublet of abacate. Compare aguacatillo, avocadillo.
The first mention can be found in the 1696 catalogue of Jamaican plants.[2]
Pronunciation
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Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɑːdəʊ
Noun
avocado (countable and uncountable, plural avocados or avocadoes)
- The large, usually yellowish-green or black, savory fruit of the avocado tree.
- Synonyms: alligator pear, avocado pear, butter pear, butter fruit, abacate
- The avocado tree, Persea americana, of the laurel family.
- (chiefly uncountable) A dark chartreuse colour, like the colour of the skin of an avocado.
- avocado:
- 2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 57:
- It was exactly the same as my bathroom. Same cork floor, same avocado bathroom set.
Hypernyms
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
fruit
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tree
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colour
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Translations to be checked
Adjective
avocado (not comparable)
Translations
Avocado-coloured
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See also
References
- ^ “aguacate”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16
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Further reading
avocado on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Persea americana on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Persea americana on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - avocado at USDA Plants database
- Michael Quinion (2004) “Avocado”, in Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds: Ingenious Tales of Words and Their Origins, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books in association with Penguin Books, →ISBN.
cookbook:avocado on Wikibooks.Wikibooks
Danish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Spanish aguacate, from Nahuatl āhuacatl (“avocado”).
Pronunciation
Noun
avocado c (singular definite avocadoen, plural indefinite avocadoer)
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
Noun
avocado m (plural avocado's)
Derived terms
Descendants
Italian
Pronunciation
Noun
avocado m (invariable)
Portuguese
Participle
avocado (feminine avocada, masculine plural avocados, feminine plural avocadas)
- past participle of avocar
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from English avocado.
Noun
avocado m (plural 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)
Descendants
Etymology 2
Participle
avocado (feminine avocada, masculine plural avocados, feminine plural avocadas)
- past participle of avocar
Further reading
- “avocado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16
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