avokado

From English avocado.

• (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA^(key): [ˌavɔˈkadɔ]
• (Revived Late Cornish) IPA^(key): [ˌævəˈkædɔ]

avokado m (plural avokados)

1. avocado

• avocado

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

• IPA^(key): /avokaːdo/, [avoˈkʰæːd̥o]

avokado c (singular definite avokadoen, plural indefinite avokadoer)

1. avocado

Ultimately from Classical Nahuatl āhuacatl (“avocado”). Compare Italian avocado, Spanish aguacate, French avocat, German Avocado, Yiddish אַוואָקאַדאָ (avokado), Polish awokado, Russian авокадо (avokado).

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• IPA^(key): [avoˈkado]
• Rhymes: -ado
• Hyphenation: a‧vo‧ka‧do

avokado (accusative singular avokadon, plural avokadoj, accusative plural avokadojn)

1. avocado (pulpy fruit of the avocado tree)

   Avokadoj havas multan fibron kaj aliajn nutraĵojn.

   Avocados have lots of fiber and other nutrients.

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

• IPA^(key): /avokaːto/

avokado f (genitive singular avokadoar, plural avokadoir)

1. avocado

• avokaato (obsolete or humouristic)

Internationalism (compare English avocado, German Avocado, Russian авокадо (avokado), Swedish avokado). Ultimately from Nahuatl ahuacatl.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑʋokɑ(ː)do/, [ˈɑ̝ʋo̞ˌkɑ̝(ː)do̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑdo
• Syllabification^(key): a‧vo‧ka‧do

avokado

1. avocado

• “avokado”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

Borrowed from English avocado, Italian avocado, French avocat, German Avocado, Russian авокадо (avokado), Spanish aguacate. Paronym to advokato.

• IPA^(key): /a.voˈka.do/

avokado (plural avokadi)

1. avocado

• avokadiero (“avocado (tree)”)

Via other European languages, ultimately borrowed from Spanish aguacate, itself a borrowing from Nahuatl āhuacatl. In Europe, the term was also influenced by confusion with Spanish abogado (“lawyer”).

• IPA^(key): [avoˈkadoː]

• IPA^(key): [avoˈkaːdoː]

avokado m (invariable)

1. avocado plant (Persea americana)

   avokado ir lauru dzimtas augs ― the avocado is a plant of the family Lauraceae

2. avocado fruit (the large, yellowish-green, pulpy fruit of the avocado tree)

   avokado satur daudz tiamīnu (B1), riboflavīnu (B2) un A vitamīnu ― the avocado contains a lot of vitamin B1 (thiamine), B2 (riboflavin) and A

Borrowed from Spanish avocado.

• IPA^(key): /aʋokǎːdo/
• Hyphenation: a‧vo‧ka‧do

avokádo m (Cyrillic spelling авока́до)

1. avocado

• “avokado” in Hrvatski jezični portal

From Spanish avocado, from Nahuatl ahuacatl.

• IPA^(key): /avʊˈkɑːdʊ/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːdʊ

avokado c

1. avocado

• avokado in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Borrowed from English avocado, from Spanish avocado, from Classical Nahuatl āhuacatl (“avocado”), from Proto-Nahuan *pa:wa (“avocado”).

• IPA^(key): [ävoˈkäːdo]
• Hyphenation: a‧vo‧ka‧do

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avokado (definite accusative avokadoyu, plural avokadolar)

1. avocado

• “avokado”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “avokado”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010) “avokado”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı

Borrowed from Russian авока́до (avokádo).

avokado

1. avocado

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “авокадо”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎, Petrozavodsk: Periodika