different between avocado vs precipitous

English

Etymology

Borrowed from American Spanish avocado, altered—by folk-etymological association with abogado (“lawyer”)—from the earlier aguacate, which comes from Classical Nahuatl ?huacatl (“avocado”). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?) Doublet of abacate.

The first mention can be found in the 1696 catalogue of Jamaican plants.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /æv??k??d??/
• (General American) enPR: ?v?kä?d?, IPA^(key): /?v??k?do?/, [?v??k??o?], /æv??k?do?/, [æv??k??o?]
• Rhymes: -??d??

Noun

avocado (countable and uncountable, plural avocados or avocadoes)

1. The large, usually yellowish-green or black, pulpy 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.

Derived terms

• avocado pear
• Hass avocado

Descendants

• ? Irish: abhacád

Translations

Adjective

avocado (not comparable)

1. Of a dull yellowish-green colour.

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See also

• guacamole
• Appendix:Colors

References

Further reading

• 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

Danish

Alternative forms

• avokado

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [a?o?k?æ?d?o]

Noun

avocado c (singular definite avocadoen, plural indefinite avocadoer)

1. avocado

Inflection

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish avocado.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?.vo??ka?.do?/
• Hyphenation: avo?ca?do

Noun

avocado m (plural avocado's)

1. avocado, alligator pear

Derived terms

• avocadoboom

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: avokad
• ? Sranan Tongo: afkati

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.vo?ka.do/
• Rhymes: -ado

Noun

avocado m (invariable)

1. avocado

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /abo?kado/, [a.??o?ka.ð?o]
• Homophone: abocado

Etymology 1

From aguacate, possibly influenced by a Caribbean language.

Noun

avocado m (plural avocados)

1. (Philippines) avocado

   Synonym: aguacate

Descendants

Etymology 2

Verb

avocado m (feminine singular avocada, masculine plural avocados, feminine plural avocadas)

1. Masculine singular past participle of avocar.

Further reading

• “avocado” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

From obsolete French précipiteux, from Vulgar Latin *praecipitosus. Equivalent to precipice (“steep”) +? -ous.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p???s?p?t?s/

Adjective

precipitous

1. Steep, like a precipice

2. Headlong

3. Hasty; rash; quick; sudden

Synonyms

• (steep): brant, steep-to
• (headlong): headlong, precipitant, precipitous
• (hasty, rash): heedless, hotheaded, impetuous; see also Thesaurus:reckless
• (sudden): abrupt, precipitous, subitaneous; see also Thesaurus:sudden

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