avocado

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]

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

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɑːdəʊ

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
• 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 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28