avocado
See also: Avocado
English
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin American Spanish avocado, from the earlier aguacate, which comes from Classical Nahuatl āhuacatl (“avocado”).[1] (Can this(+) etymology be sourced? Particularly: “Spanish entry does not mention folk-etymology”) (Can this(+) etymology be sourced? Particularly: “Latin American Spanish uses aguacate or palta, the DRAE marks avocado as being used in the Philippines”) Doublet of abacate. Compare aguacatillo, avocadillo.
The first mention can be found in the 1696 catalogue of Jamaican plants.[2]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ævəˈkɑːdəʊ/
- (General American) enPR: ăvəkäʹdō, IPA(key): /ɑvəˈkɑdoʊ/, [ɑvəˈkɑɾoʊ], /ævəˈkɑdoʊ/, [ævəˈkɑɾoʊ]
Audio (US): (file) - (Indic) IPA(key): /əvɵˈkɑɖo/, (spelling pronunciation) /-æɖo/
- Rhymes: -ɑːdəʊ, -ædəʊ
Noun
[edit]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 color, like the color 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
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Icelandic: avókadó
- → Irish: abhacád
- → Venda: ḽiafukhada
- → Welsh: afocado
Translations
[edit]fruit
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tree
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color
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- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
Translations to be checked
Adjective
[edit]avocado (not comparable)
Translations
[edit]Avocado-coloured
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ “aguacate”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
- ^ Hans Sloane (1696), Catalogus plantarum quae in insula Jamaica[1] (in Latin)
Further reading
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avocado on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Persea americana on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Category: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
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Spanish aguacate, from Nahuatl āhuacatl (“avocado”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]avocado c (singular definite avocadoen, plural indefinite avocadoer)
Inflection
[edit]| common gender |
singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | avocado | avocadoen | avocadoer | avocadoerne |
| genitive | avocados | avocadoens | avocadoers | avocadoernes |
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish avocado.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]avocado m (plural avocado's, no diminutive)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Italian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]avocado m (invariable)
- avocado
- Synonym: (rare) pera alligatore
Portuguese
[edit]Participle
[edit]avocado (feminine avocada, masculine plural avocados, feminine plural avocadas)
- past participle of avocar
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English avocado.
Noun
[edit]avocado m (plural avocado)
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
| nominative-accusative | avocado | avocadoul | avocado | avocadoi | |
| genitive-dative | avocado | avocadoului | avocado | avocadolor | |
| vocative | avocadoule | avocadolor | |||
Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From aguacate, possibly influenced by a Caribbean language.
Noun
[edit]avocado m (plural avocados)
- (Philippines, US) avocado
Descendants
[edit]- → Asi: abokado
- → Cebuano: abokado
- → Danish: avocado, avokado
- → Dutch: avocado
- → English: avocado
- → Icelandic: avókadó
- → Irish: abhacád
- → Venda: ḽiafukhada
- → Welsh: afocado
- → Faroese: avokado
- → French: avocat
- → German: Avocado
- → Italian: avocado
- → Hiligaynon: abokado
- → Serbo-Croatian: avokádo
- → Tagalog: abokado
- → Turkish: avokado
Etymology 2
[edit]Participle
[edit]avocado (feminine avocada, masculine plural avocados, feminine plural avocadas)
- past participle of avocar
Further reading
[edit]- “avocado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
Swedish
[edit]Noun
[edit]avocado c
- alternative form of avokado (“avocado”)
Declension
[edit]| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | avocado | avocados |
| definite | avocadon | avocadons | |
| plural | indefinite | avocados, avocador | avocados, avocadors |
| definite | avocadorna | avocadornas |
References
[edit]- “avocado”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
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