aguacate
Asturian
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Classical Nahuatl ahuacatl (“avocado”)
Noun
aguacate m (plural aguacates)
Galician
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Classical Nahuatl ahuacatl (“avocado”)
Noun
aguacate m (plural aguacates)
- avocado (fruit and tree)
Synonyms
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl āhuacatl (“avocado fruit”).
Pronunciation
Noun
aguacate m (plural aguacates)
- avocado (fruit)
- November 2002, J. de Jesús Ornela and Elhadi M. Yahia, "El aguacate en México", Horitcultura internacional volume 38, p. 78, published by the Ministerio de Agricultura, Alimentación y Medio Ambiente of the Spanish federal government
- "Así pues, para el año 1600 el aguacate llega a España, en el año 1650 a Jamaica, en 1700 a Cuba, en 1750 a Ghana, en 1833 a la Florida, en los Estados Unidos, en 1890 a las Filipinas, etc, comenzando así a la distribución del aguacate por el mundo, debido a la cual el término aguacate ha sufrido modificaciones locales tales como alvacata, avocatier, avocaat, zaboca, avocado, avocato, avigato, albecetta, o pera cocodrilo." ("So by the year 1600 the avocado arrived in Spain, in the year 1650 Jamaica, in 1700 Cuba, in 1750 Ghana, in 1833 Florida, in the United States, in 1890 the Philippines, etc, beginning with the distribution of the avocado across the world, similarly the term avocado has suffered several local modifications such as alvacata, avocatier, avocaat, zaboca, avocado, avocato, avigato, albecetta, or crocodile pear.")
- November 2002, J. de Jesús Ornela and Elhadi M. Yahia, "El aguacate en México", Horitcultura internacional volume 38, p. 78, published by the Ministerio de Agricultura, Alimentación y Medio Ambiente of the Spanish federal government
- avocado (tree)
- a shade of green like an avocado
- (El Salvador, Guatemala) a loose and lively person
Synonyms
Related terms
Descendants
- → Asturian: aguacate
- → Basque: ahuakate
- → Galician: aguacate
- → Portuguese: abacate
- ⇒ Spanish: (from folk-etymological association with abogado) avocado
Further reading
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- Asturian terms derived from Classical Nahuatl
- Asturian lemmas
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- Galician terms derived from Classical Nahuatl
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- Galician nouns
- Galician countable nouns
- Galician masculine nouns
- gl:Fruits
- gl:Trees
- Spanish terms borrowed from Classical Nahuatl
- Spanish terms derived from Classical Nahuatl
- Spanish 4-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
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- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
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- Salvadorian Spanish
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