avocado

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]

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ævəˈkɑːdəʊ/
• (General American) enPR: ăvəkäʹdō, IPA^(key): /ɑvəˈkɑdoʊ/, [ɑvəˈkɑɾoʊ], /ævəˈkɑdoʊ/, [ævəˈkɑɾoʊ]

• Audio (US):

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• (Indic) IPA^(key): /ɐ.vɵk.ɑ.ɖo/, (spelling pronunciation) /-aɖ.o/
• Rhymes: -ɑːdəʊ, -ædəʊ

avocado (countable and uncountable, plural avocados or avocadoes)

2. The large, usually yellowish-green or black, savory fruit of the avocado tree.

   Synonyms: alligator pear, avocado pear, butter pear, butter fruit, abacate

4. The avocado tree, Persea americana, of the laurel family.
5. (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.

• fruit

• → Icelandic: avókadó
• → Irish: abhacád
• → Venda: ḽiafukhada
• → Welsh: afocado

avocado (not comparable)

1. Of a dull yellowish-green colour.

• guacamole
• Appendix:Colors

• 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

• avokado

From Spanish aguacate, from Nahuatl āhuacatl (“avocado”).

• IPA^(key): [aʋoˈkʰæːd̥o]

avocado c (singular definite avocadoen, plural indefinite avocadoer)

1. avocado

Borrowed from Spanish avocado.

• IPA^(key): /ˌaː.voːˈkaː.doː/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: avo‧ca‧do

avocado m (plural avocado's)

1. avocado, alligator pear

• avocadoboom

• → Indonesian: avokad
• → Sranan Tongo: afkati

• IPA^(key): /a.voˈka.do/
• Rhymes: -ado
• Hyphenation: a‧vo‧cà‧do

avocado m (invariable)

1. avocado

avocado (feminine avocada, masculine plural avocados, feminine plural avocadas)

1. past participle of avocar

Borrowed from English avocado.

avocado m (plural avocado)

1. avocado

• IPA^(key): /aboˈkado/ [a.β̞oˈka.ð̞o]
• Rhymes: -ado
• Syllabification: a‧vo‧ca‧do
• Homophone: abocado

From aguacate, possibly influenced by a Caribbean language.

avocado m (plural avocados)

1. (Philippines, US) avocado

   Synonyms: aguacate, (Argentina, Chile, Peru, Uruguay) palta, (Colombia, dated) cura

avocado (feminine avocada, masculine plural avocados, feminine plural avocadas)

1. past participle of avocar

• “avocado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

avocado c

1. alternative form of avokado (“avocado”)

• avocado in Svensk ordbok (SO)