different between cacao vs coco

English

Etymology

From Spanish cacao, from Classical Nahuatl cacahuatl. Doublet of cocoa.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k??k?????/, /k??ke?????/, [k??k??????], [k??k?e?????]
• (US) IPA^(key): /k??ka??/, /k??ke??o??/, [k??k?a??], [k??k?e??o??]
• Rhymes: -a?

Noun

cacao (countable and uncountable, plural cacaos)

1. A tree, Theobroma cacao, whose seed is used to make chocolate.
2. This tree's seed, the cocoa bean.

Derived terms

• Cacao yellow mosaic virus

Related terms

• cocoa

Translations

Further reading

• cacao on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Dutch

Alternative forms

• cacau (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish cacao, from Classical Nahuatl cacahuatl.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??k?u?/
• Hyphenation: ca?cao
• Rhymes: -?u?

Noun

cacao m (uncountable)

1. cocoa [from late 16th c.]

Derived terms

• cacaoboom
• cacaoboon
• cacaoboter
• cacaomelk
• cacao-overeenkomst
• cacaopoeder

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: kakao

French

Etymology

From Spanish cacao

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.ka.o/

Noun

cacao m (plural cacaos)

1. cocoa

Derived terms

• beurre de cacao
• cacaoté
• cacaotier
• cacaotière
• cacaoyer
• cacaoyère

Further reading

• “cacao” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Noun

cacao m (invariable)

1. cocoa

Romanian

Etymology

From French cacao.

Noun

cacao f (uncountable)

1. cocoa

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Classical Nahuatl cacahuatl (“cacao bean”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?kao/, [ka?ka.o]

Noun

cacao m (plural cacaos)

1. cacao tree

   Synonym: cacaotero

2. cacao bean
3. cocoa (bean, powder)
4. (colloquial) confusion

   Synonyms: desorden, confusión

Derived terms

• cacaotal
• cacaotero

Related terms

• cacahual
• cacahuate, cacahuete

Descendants

Further reading

• “cacao” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
• cacao on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es

English

Etymology

From Spanish/Portuguese coco (“grinning face”) (due to the three holes in the shell resembling a human face).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k??.k??/
• (US) enPR: k??k?, IPA^(key): /?ko?.ko?/
• Rhymes: -??k??
• Homophone: cocoa

Noun

coco (plural cocos)

1. Coconut palm.
2. Coconut, the fruit of the coconut palm.

References

Amis

Etymology

From Proto-Austronesian *susu. Compare Indonesian susu, Fijian sucu, Tagalog suso, Tongan huhu and Hawaiian ?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tsu.tsu/

Noun

coco

1. (anatomy) breast

References

2017, Dictionary of the Central Dialect of Amis (?????????) (in Mandarin Chinese), Taiwan: Council of Indigenous Peoples.

Catalan

Etymology

From Spanish coco.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?ko.ko/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?ko.ku/

Noun

coco m (plural cocos)

1. coconut

Related terms

• cocoter

Further reading

• “coco” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ko.ko/
• Rhymes: -o

Etymology 1

Italian, from Spanish coco. The fruit was originally referred to by the Spanish equivalent of croque-mitaine (“bogeyman”), due to the spooky face-like appearance of the three dots at the end of the shell, which developed in coco.

As in English, the fruit was originally referred to as coco (in the 16th century), but in the 17th (as in English) it became usual to refer to it as a nut, in the form noix de coco (“coconut”).

Noun

coco m (plural cocos)

1. Fruit of the coconut palm, also called noix de coco
2. A kind of bean.
3. (slang) Motor fuel.
4. (dated) A type of licorice drink, by analogy with coconut milk.

Synonyms

• (fuel): carburant

Hypernyms

• (bean): haricot

Derived terms

• lait de coco
• noix de coco

Etymology 2

Duplication of initial co-.

Noun

coco m or f (plural cocos)

1. (informal) Commie (masculine)
2. (slang) cocaine (feminine)

Etymology 3

Perhaps by contraction of cocorico (“cock-a-doodle-do”).

Noun

coco m (plural cocos)

1. (informal, dated, childish) egg

Synonyms

• (egg): œuf

Etymology 4

Noun

coco m or f (plural cocos)

1. (informal) Friendly, joking term for a friend; pal, mate, buddy.

2. (informal, derogatory) Aggressive, disdainful term of address, usually preceded by mon, ma, or mes. Roughly punk or buddy, as in “You wanna try, punk?”, or “Hey buddy, what do you think you’re doing?”

Further reading

• “coco” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Galician

Etymology

From Latin coccum (“berry; gall; insect; scarlet dye”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (kókkos, “grain, seed, berry”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?ko?/, /?koko?/

Noun

coco m (plural cocos)

1. bogeyman
2. oak gall
3. coconut
4. bug; worm

   Synonyms: becho, bicho, verme

Derived terms

• coco de luz (“glowworm”)

References

• “coco” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “coco” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “coco” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ko.ko?/, [?k?ko?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ko.ko/, [?k??k?]

Verb

coc? (present infinitive cocere, perfect active cox?, supine coctum); third conjugation

1. Alternative form of coqu?

Conjugation

Noun

coc?

1. dative singular of cocus
2. ablative singular of cocus

References

• coco in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• coco in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Manchu

Romanization

coco

1. Romanization of ???? (coco)

Norman

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)Compare French coco.

Noun

coco m (plural cocos)

1. (Jersey, informal) egg, eggy

Derived terms

• cocotchi (“eggcup”)

Portuguese

Etymology

Probably from Late Latin coccum (“kernel, seed”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ko.ku/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /?ko.ko/

Noun

coco m (plural cocos)

1. coconut (fruit of coco palm)

Related terms

• coqueiro
• água-de-coco

References

• “coconut”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, ?ISBN

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?koko/, [?ko.ko]

Etymology 1

From sense 2 (“skull, head”), because of the resemblance of the fruit to a grinning face.

Noun

coco m (plural cocos)

1. coconut
2. (colloquial, Chile) testicle
3. (colloquial, Peru) US dollars

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Portuguese côco (“bogeyman, grinning face”), probably from Latin coccum (“kernel, seed”).

Noun

coco m (plural cocos)

2. (folklore) bogeyman

   Synonym: cuco, hombre del saco

3. (colloquial) brain; head

Etymology 3

From Latin coccum.

Noun

coco m (plural cocos)

1. (entomology) weevil

   Synonym: gorgojo

2. (bacteriology) coccus

   Synonym: micrococo

Further reading

• “coco” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
• Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, ?ISBN