# avocado
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin American Spanish avocado, from the earlier aguacate, which comes from Classical Nahuatl āhuacatl (“avocado”). (Can this etymology be sourced?) Doublet of abacate. Compare aguacatillo, avocadillo.
The first mention can be found in the 1696 catalogue of Jamaican plants.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ævəˈkɑːdəʊ/
* (General American) enPR: ăvəkäʹdō, IPA: /ɑvəˈkɑdoʊ/, [ɑvəˈkɑɾoʊ], /ævəˈkɑdoʊ/, [ævəˈkɑɾoʊ]
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɑːdəʊ

### Noun

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

* fruit

#### Derived terms

* avocadoey
* avocado hand
* avocado latte
* avocadoless
* avocadolike
* avocado oil
* avocado pear
* avocado toast
* avolatte
* crabocado
* Hass avocado

#### Descendants

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

#### Translations

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### Adjective

avocado (not comparable)
* Of a dull yellowish-green colour.

#### See also

* guacamole
* Appendix:Colors

### References

* ↑ “aguacate”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
* ↑ Hans Sloane (1696) Catalogus plantarum quae in insula Jamaica‎ (in Latin)

### Further reading

* 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
### Alternative forms

* avokado

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [aʋoˈkʰæːd̥o]

### Noun

avocado c (singular definite avocadoen, plural indefinite avocadoer)
* avocado

#### Inflection
## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish avocado.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˌaː.voːˈkaː.doː/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: avo‧ca‧do

### Noun

avocado m (plural avocado's)
* avocado, alligator pear

#### Derived terms

* avocadoboom

#### Descendants

* → Indonesian: avokad
* → Sranan Tongo: afkati

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /a.voˈka.do/
* Rhymes: -ado
* Hyphenation: a‧vo‧cà‧do

### Noun

avocado m (invariable)
* avocado

## Portuguese
### Participle

avocado (feminine avocada, masculine plural avocados, feminine plural avocadas)
* past participle of avocar

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from English avocado.

### Noun

avocado m (plural avocado)
* avocado

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aboˈkado/ [a.β̞oˈka.ð̞o]
* Rhymes: -ado
* Syllabification: a‧vo‧ca‧do
* Homophone: abocado

### Etymology 1

From aguacate, possibly influenced by a Caribbean language.

#### Noun

avocado m (plural avocados)
* (Philippines, US) avocado
    Synonyms: aguacate, (Argentina, Chile, Peru, Uruguay) palta, (Colombia, dated) cura

##### Descendants

* → Asi: abokado
* → Cebuano: abokado
* → Danish: avocado, avokado
* → Dutch: avocado
** → Indonesian: avokad
** → Sranan Tongo: afkati
* → 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
#### Participle

avocado (feminine avocada, masculine plural avocados, feminine plural avocadas)
* past participle of avocar

### Further reading

* “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], 2024 December 10