# potato
## English
### Alternative forms

* potatoe (obsolete)
* p'tater, tater (dialectal or informal)

### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish patata, itself borrowed from Taíno batata (“sweet potato”).

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /pəˈteɪ.təʊ/
** Audio (Received Pronunciation); [pə̥ˈtʰɛɪ̯tʰɜʊ̯]:(file)
** Audio (Received Pronunciation); [pə̥ˈtʰɛi̯tʰɜu̯]:(file)
* (General American, Canada) enPR: pə-tāʹtō, IPA: /pəˈteɪ.toʊ/, [-ˈteɪ.ɾoʊ]
** Audio (US); [pə̥ˈtʰeˑɾo]:(file)
* (Indic) IPA: /poˈʈæʈoː/
* Rhymes: -eɪtəʊ

### Noun

potato (countable and uncountable, plural potatoes)
* Solanum tuberosum or its edible starchy tuber.
** 1891, “Condensed Replies to Various Letters”, in Leroy M[ilton] Yale, editor, Babyhood: The Mother’s Nursery Guide, Devoted to the Care of Children, volume VII, New York, N.Y., London: Babyhood Publishing Company, page 230, column 2:Do not let your child have potato for another year; he will probably take milk well enough after he is weaned.
** 1912, C[harles] F[ord] Langworthy, Caroline L[ouisa] Hunt, Cheese and Its Economical Uses in the Diet (Farmers’ Bulletin 487), Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, page 24:The protein value of this dish is equal to that of 1⅛ pounds of potato and beef, the fuel value, however, being much in excess of these.
** 1915, Annual Report of the Local Government Board for Scotland, page 17:A number of the children said that they had potato for breakfast, potato and herring for dinner, potato and milk for supper.
** 1917, Knut Hamsun, Growth of the Soil, Book 1, Ch.4, at p.34:
    What was that about potatoes? Were they just a thing from foreign parts, like coffee; a luxury, an extra? Oh, the potato is a lordly fruit; drought or downpour, it grows and grows all the same. It laughs at the weather, and will stand anything; only deal kindly with it, and it yields fifteen-fold again. [...] A man may lack grain to make bread, but give him potatoes and he will not starve. Roast them in embers, and there is supper; boil them in water, and there's a breakfast ready.
** 2017, Anthony J. McMichael, Alistair Woodward, Cameron Muir, Climate Change and the Health of Nations, →ISBN, page 213:Potatoes were introduced to Ireland in 1590 after being brought to Europe by Spanish conquistadores from their place of origin in the South American Andes.
** 2021 December 1, Nigel Harris, “St Pancras and King's Cross: 1947”, in RAIL, number 945, page 42:The rocketing popularity of potatoes in London's diet led to the conversion of the temporary GNR passenger station north of the canal [...] as a dedicated potato terminal, whose significant traffic was stolen from coastal shipping.
* (obsolete) A sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)
* (informal, UK) A conspicuous hole in a sock or stocking.
* A person or animal shaped like a potato, that is, with a large belly and/or short legs.
* Metaphor for a person or thing of little value.
** 1757, [Tobias Smollett], The Reprisal: Or, The Tars of Old England. […], London: […] R[oberts] Baldwin, […], →OCLC, Act I, scene ii, page 8:I don't value Monſieur de Champignon a rotten potatoe; […]
** (slang, offensive) A mentally handicapped person.
** (humorous) A camera that takes poor-quality pictures.
** (humorous, slang, computing) An underpowered computer or other device, especially when small in size.
*** 2017 March 17, Steven Messner, “Overwatch community donates PC parts to fan who could barely run it at 800x600”, in PC Gamer‎:When most people refer to their computers as a potato they're being hyperbolic, but not Ethan. He plays Overwatch at 800x600 resolution with all settings on low and is excited when he gets 30 fps.
*** 2019 September 22, Benjamin Burns, “Meet the people making music with Mega Drives, Game Boys and gAtaris”, in Eurogamer‎:If you want to have a go right now, then Famitracker will let you compose songs for the NES and it'll run on a Windows-operated potato.

#### Synonyms

* (plant): p'tater (dialectal), spud (slang), tater (Britain, US, informal), tatie (Scotland, Cumbria, dialect), tator (eye dialect)
* (vegetable): Donovan (archaic slang), earthapple (rare), murphy, bog orange (obsolete slang), Irish apricot (obsolete slang), Irish fruit (obsolete slang), mickey
* (low-end computer): toaster (slang)

#### Derived terms

* air potato, air-potato (Dioscorea bulbifera)
* all that and a bag of potato chips
* almond potato
* Amandine potato
* Andean potato
* Andean potato latent virus
* Andean potato mottle virus
* Andean potato weevil (Premnotrypes spp.)
* Anna potatoes
* baby potato
* baked potato
* baking potato
* bastard potato
* Bengal potatoes
* Bintje potato
* boiling potato
* Bordet-Gengou potato blood agar
* Brazilian potato tree (Solanum wrightii)
* Burbank potato, Burbank Russet potato
* Canarian wrinkly potatoes
* Caribe potato (Solanum tuberosum)
* Carolina potato (Solanum tuberosum)
* chat potatoes
* chef's potato
* Chilean potato-tree, Chilean potato vine (Solanum crispum)
* Chinese potato (Plectranthus rotundifolius, Coleus rotundifolius)
* chipped potato
* clean potato
* cold-potato routing
* coleus potato(Coleus rotundifolius)
* Colorado potato beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata)
* couch potato
* country potato (Coleus rotundifolius)
* Cree potato
* Cuban sweet potato
* Delmonico potato
* desk potato
* drop like a hot potato
* duchess potatoes, duchesse potatoes
* duck potato (Sagittaria latifolia)
* Eskimo potato
* false potato beetle (Leptinotarsa juncta)
* fauxtato
* fingerling potato
* finger potato
* fondante potato
* fondant potato
* frafra potato
* French fried potato
* French-fried potato
* french-fried potato
* french fried potato
* French-fried potatoes
* giant potato creeper (Solanum wendlandii)
* glasshouse and potato aphid, glasshouse-potato aphid (Aulacorthum solani)
* Goa potato
* Greenfield potatoes
* green potato
* Hausa potato (Coleus rotundifolius)
* hog potato
* hog's potato
* home-fried potatoes
* hot potato
* hot-potato routing
* Indian potato (Sagittaria latifolia, (Apios americana)
* Irish potato
* Irish Potato Famine
* jacket potato
* Japanese potato (Colocasia antiquorum)
* Japanese sweet potato
* Jersey Royal potatoes
* Jerusalem potato
* kidney potato
* little potato
* Livingstone potato
* long white potato
* Lyonnaise potatoes
* Madagascar potato (Plectranthus rotundifolius)
* mashed potato, mashed potatoes
* mash potato
* meat and potatoes
* Mexican potato (Pachyrhizus erosus)
* mouse potato
* native potato (Coleus rotundifolius)
* new potato
* O'Brien potatoes
* oca potato (Oxalis tuberosa)
* Okinawan purple potato
* Okinawan sweet potato
* one potato, two potato
* pineapple potato
* potater
* potato aphid (Macrosiphum euphorbiae)
* potato apple bread
* potato apple, potato-apple
* Potato aucuba mosaic virus
* potato badger
* potato-ball
* potato bean, potato-bean (Apios americana)
* potato beetle, potato-beetle
* Potato black ringspot virus
* potato blight
* potato blood agar
* potato-bogle
* potato-box
* potato bread
* potato bug, potato-bug
* potato bush
* potato cake, potato-cake
* potato cannon
* potato chaser
* potato chip
* potato chip of the sea
* potato chips
* potato clay
* potato cod
* potato creeper
* potato crisp
* potato crisps
* potato curl
* potato cyst
* potato cyst nematode (Globodera spp.)
* Potato deforming mosaic virus
* potato dextrose agar
* potato dextrose broth
* potato dumpling
* potatoe
* potato-eater
* potato eater
* potato eelworm, potato eel (Globodera rostochiensis)
* potatoes and point
* potatoey
* potato-eye
* potato failure
* potato family
* potato famine
* potato farls
* potato fern
* potato finger
* potato flake
* potato flour
* potato fly, potato-fly (Epicauta vittata)
* potato fork
* potato fungus (Phytophthora infestans)
* potato grant
* potato gun
* potato head
* potato-head
* potato-headed
* potato hook
* potato in its jacket
* potato-jaw
* potato kugel
* potato late blight
* Potato latent virus
* potato latke
* potato leafhopper (Empoasca fabae)
* Potato leafroll virus
* potato lectin
* potato-loaf
* potato masher, potato-masher
* potato mildew (Phytophthora infestans)
* potato-mill
* potato mold, potato mould
* Potato mop-top virus
* potato mosaic
* potato moth (Stoeberhinus testaceus)
* potato-mouth
* potato-mouthed
* potato murrain
* potato nigger
* potato nose, potato-nose
* potato nuggets
* potato oat
* potato of Canada
* potato oil
* potato onion
* potato opening
* potato pancake
* potato paradox
* potato patch
* potato peel
* potato peeler, potato-peeler
* potato peelings
* potato pen
* potato-phile
* potato pie
* potato pit
* potato plant
* potato pretender
* potato psyllid (Bactericera cockerelli)
* potato pudding
* potato puff
* potato-quality
* potato race
* potato radius
* potato ricer
* potato ring, potato-ring
* potato-root
* potato root nematode (Globodera spp.)
* potato rot
* potato rot nematode (Ditylenchus destructor)
* potato rugose mosaic
* potato salad
* potato salad
* potato scab
* potato scab bacteria
* potato scallop
* potato scone
* potato-scoop
* potato set
* potato-shop
* potato-sick
* potato skin
* potato skins
* Potato spindle tuber viroid
* potato spirit, potato-spirit
* potato split-worm (Phthorimaea operculella)
* potato-spraying
* potato-stalk borer, potato-stalk weevil (Trichobaris trinotata)
* potato starch
* potato stem mottle
* potato stick
* potato straw
* potato sugar
* potato thrips
* potato trap, potato-trap
* potato tree, potato-tree
* potato tuber moth (Phthorimaea operculella)
* potato tuber nematode (Ditylenchus destructor)
* potato tuberworm (Ditylenchus destructor)
* potato tumor, potato tumour
* potato vine (Solanum wendlandii, Solanum crispum, Solanum laxum)
* Potato virus A
* Potato virus M
* Potato virus S
* Potato virus T
* Potato virus U
* Potato virus V
* Potato virus X
* potato virus X
* Potato virus Y
* Potato War
* potato wart
* potato wart fungus (Synchytrium endobioticum)
* potato wedge
* potato wedges
* potato whisky
* potato-woman
* potato worm (Manduca quinquemaculata)
* potato yam (Dioscorea bulbifera)
* potato yellow dwarf
* Potato yellow dwarf nucleorhabdovirus
* Potato yellowing virus
* Potato yellow mosaic virus
* Potato yellow vein virus
* potayto, potahto
* prairie potato (Psoralea esculenta)
* Price's potato-bean (Apios priceana)
* prickly potato (Solanum triflorum)
* purple Peruvian potato
* purple potato
* red potato
* red round potato
* red-skinned potato
* russet potato
* Russian blue potato
* salt potatoes
* sautéed potato
* scalloped potatoes
* sea potato (Echinocardium cordatum)
* seaside potato (Ipomoea pes-caprae)
* seed potato
* see you later, baked potato
* shoestring potatoes
* small potatoes, small potatoes and a few in a hill, small potatoes and a few in the hill
* smashed potato
* smashed potatoes
* Spanish potato
* starchy potato
* swamp potato (Sagittaria spp.)
* sweet potato
* tater
* Telinga potato
* telingo potato
* ten-lined potato beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata)
* tornado potato
* tropical sweet potato
* Vivaldi potato
* volcano potato
* waxy potato
* white-fleshed sweet potato
* white potato
* white potato vine
* white round potato
* white sweet potato
* Wild potato mosaic virus
* wild potato (Peltandra virginica)
* wild potato vine, wild sweet potato vine, wild sweet potato(Ipomoea pandurata)
* yellow dwarf of potato
* yellow potato
* Zulu potato, Zulu round potato

#### Translations

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### Verb

potato (third-person singular simple present potatoes, present participle potatoing, simple past and past participle potatoed)
* (slang, transitive) To hit very hard; to pummel.
** 2014, James Dixon, Arnold Furious, Bob Dahlstrom, The Raw Files: 1998, page 26:Bradshaw doesn't find much humour in it though, and beats the tar out of Dustin, potatoing him with every blow.
* (transitive) To hit with a thrown or fired potato.
** 2017, A. J. Low, Sherlock Sam’s Orange Shorts: Special Edition:Yvonne and Lee Swee potatoed Deputy Lestrade multiple times before Sheriff Moran potatoed them both. […] Suddenly, Sheriff Moran heard the click click of an empty weapon. He turned to see that both Mayor Eliza and Kat had run out of ammunition.

### Interjection

potato
* (onomatopoeia, often repeated) The rhythmic sound produced by a V-twin engine—a distinctive deep, throaty exhaust note.

### Anagrams

* patoot, topato

## Ido
### Etymology

Borrowed from English potato.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /poˈtato/
* Rhymes: -ato

### Noun

potato (plural potati)
* potato
    Synonym: terpomo

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /poˈta.to/
* Rhymes: -ato
* Hyphenation: po‧tà‧to

### Participle

potato (feminine potata, masculine plural potati, feminine plural potate)
* past participle of potare

### Anagrams

* optato, topato

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /poːˈtaː.toː/, [poːˈt̪äːt̪oː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /poˈta.to/, [poˈt̪äːt̪o]

### Verb

pōtātō
* second/third-person singular future active imperative of pōtō

### Participle

pōtātō
* masculine/neuter dative/ablative singular of pōtātus