avocadoとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from 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.^[1]

発音

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

名詞

avocado (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 avocados または avocadoes)

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

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

2. The avocado tree, Persea americana, of the laurel family.
3. (color, chiefly uncountable) A dark chartreuse colour, like the colour of the skin of an avocado.

   avocado:  

   • 2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, Hamish Hamilton, page 57:

     It was exactly the same as my bathroom. Same cork floor, same avocado bathroom set.

上位語

• fruit

派生語

• avocado hand
• avocado pear
• Hass avocado

派生した語

• → Icelandic: avókadó
• → Irish: abhacád

形容詞

avocado (not comparable)

1. Of a dull yellowish-green colour.

参考

• guacamole
• Appendix:Colors

参照

Further reading

• avocado on Wikipedia.
• Persea americana on Wikispecies.
• Persea americana on 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.