different between cocoa vs nutella

English

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From Spanish cacao, from Classical Nahuatl cacahuatl. The form cocoa by confusion with coco, popularized by Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language. Doublet of cacao.

Noun

cocoa (countable and uncountable, plural cocoas)

1. The dried and partially fermented fatty seeds of the cacao tree from which chocolate is made.
2. An unsweetened brown powder made from roasted, ground cocoa beans, used in making chocolate, and in cooking.
3. (uncountable) A hot drink made with milk, cocoa powder, and sugar.
   • 1979, Stanley J. Sharpless, A Food Lover's Companion, Harper & Row, Evan Jones (edit.)

     Half past nine - high time for supper;

     Cocoa, love? Of course, my dear.

     Helen thinks it quite delicious,

     John prefers it now to beer....

     ¶For they've stumbled on the secret

     Of a love that never wanes,

     Rapt beneath the tumbled bedclothes,

     Cocoa coursing through their veins.

4. (countable) A serving of this drink.

5. (countable) A light to medium brown colour.

Synonyms

• (hot drink): chocolate, drinking chocolate, hot chocolate

Derived terms

• cocoa bean
• cocoa butter
• cocoa-payol
• cocoa powder

Related terms

• cacao

Translations

Adjective

cocoa (not comparable)

1. Of a light to medium brown colour, like that of cocoa powder.

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Colors

Etymology 2

By confusion with cocoa, popularized by Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language.

Noun

cocoa

1. (dated) Alternative spelling of coco.

Classical Nahuatl

Alternative forms

• cocohua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koko(w)a/

Verb

cocoa

1. (transitive) To hurt.
2. (reflexive) To be ill.

Related terms

• cocoya

References

• Wolgemuth, Carl et al. (2002) Diccionario náhuatl de los municipios de Mecayapan y Tatahuicapan de Juárez, Veracruz?^[1], 2nd electronic ed., Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, pages 87, 119, 231, 242

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ko?koa/, [ko?ko.a]

Noun

cocoa f (plural cocoas)

1. cocoa

Danish

Noun

nutella

1. Nutella (genericized trademark)

French

Etymology

From the brand name Nutella.

Noun

nutella m (plural nutellas)

1. Nutella (sweet spread including hazelnut and chocolate)
   • 2004, Alexandre Desrameaux, né d'une pierre jetée dans l'eau calme, Fernand Lanore, ?ISBN, page 80:

     L'écorce des arbres a le goût du nutella séché : j'ai envie de me jeter sur eux mais ils me rendent trop triste car je ne peux pas.

   • 2004, L'amour en ligne..., Editions Le Manuscrit, ?ISBN, volume 1, page 126:

     et le sucre, la confiture... la miel... la nutella... mmmmm […] et des mains qui roulent une crêpe, et doucement te l'approchent de la bouche, le miel coule, sur tes lèvres, ton cou, imagine les miennes.

   • 2008, Ebène, Poèmes en saisons, Editions Publibook, ?ISBN, page :

     Rien n'a jamais été aussi croustillant que ma vie dans tes bras. / Comme d'habitude au contact de tes doigts, / Je fondrais pour toi comme du nutella. / Ta peau laiteuse sur mon corps évanoui / Tourbillonneront dans une valse délicieuse / Se mêlant comme dans un bol de banania.

   • 2009, Dominique Auzias and Jean-Paul Labourdette, Brésil, Petit Futé, ?ISBN, edition 6, page 275:

     Entre pizza au nutella et pizza à la mozarella de bufflonne, plus de quarante variétés de pizzas et de plats différents dans ce temple de la pizza.

   • 2009, Dominique Auzias and Jean-Paul Labourdette, Escapades autour de Toulouse, Petit Futé, ?ISBN, edition 6, page 66:

     Parmi les spécialités, il faut signaler les biscuits maison au nutella, au coco et à la cannelle et au rayon nouveautés, il faut se précipiter sur les macarons, les sucettes au chocolat, la guimauve...

   • 2010, Sophie Da Costa, Le Petit Futé Yvelines, Petit Futé, ?ISBN, page 169:

     Notez ce camembert gratiné chapelure et parmesan, cette souris d'agneau à la crème de thym ou ce pain perdu à la sauce nutella.

   • 2010, Ann-Kathrin Ehlers, Crime en Bretagne, Verbrechen in der Bretagne, Langenscheidt Publishing Grp, ?ISBN, page 28:

     “Vous voulez vos crêpes au sucre, au nutella, au citron ou à la confiture?”

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Nutella

Etymology

Coined in the late 2010s. Named after the brand of chocolate spread, which is stereotypically associated with spoiled children.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /nu?t?.l?/

Adjective

nutella (invariable, comparable)

1. (Brazil, slang) modernised or evolved to the point of being objectionable, such as: (of a person) fussy, spoiled; (of a person or practice) poseurish, pretentious; (of a person, practice or object) illegitimate, inauthentic; (of a practice, ideology, symbol or similar) lite, watered-down

   Antonym: raiz

   • 2019, Alon Feuerwerker, Brasil em capítulos: Um olhar sobre a política, do impeachment às eleições de 2018, Imprimatur, page 429:

     Mas se o nome do PSDB fosse de direita raiz, e não nutella, é razoável supor que seria mais competitivo e as bancadas não sofreriam tanto.

     But if the Brazilian Social Democratic Party had had a traditional right-wing name, rather than an alt-lite name, it is reasonable to assume that it would have been more competitive and that their representatives would not have suffered so much.

Usage notes

When describing people, this term is usually used in reference to a group of people (such as an age group, a profession or a class of family members) rather than an individual, and it is usually compared with a raiz (“roots”) counterpart, which is authentic, time-honoured and unobjectionable.

Spanish

Noun

nutella m (plural nutellas)

1. Nutella
2. any chocolate spread