different between potato vs croqueta

English

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish patata, itself borrowed from Taíno batata.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p??te?.t??/, [p???t?e?t???]
• (General American) enPR: p?-t??t?, IPA^(key): /p??te?.to?/, [p???t?e??o?], [p???t?e???]
• Rhymes: -e?t??

Noun

potato (plural potatoes)

1. The tuber of a plant, Solanum tuberosum, eaten as a starchy vegetable, particularly in the Americas and Europe; this plant.
2. (informal, Britain) A conspicuous hole in a sock or stocking
3. Metaphor for a person or thing of little value.
   1. (slang, offensive) A mentally handicapped person.
   2. (humorous) A camera that takes poor-quality pictures.
   3. (humorous, slang, computing) An underpowered computer or other device, especially when small in size.

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

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

potato (comparative more potato, superlative most potato)

1. (computing, slang, humorous, of a computing device) Underpowered; low-end.

Anagrams

• patoot, topato

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from English potato.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /po?ta.to/, /p??ta.t?/

Noun

potato (plural potati)

1. potato

   Synonym: terpomo

Italian

Verb

potato m (feminine singular potata, masculine plural potati, feminine plural potate)

1. past participle of potare

Anagrams

• optato

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /po??ta?.to?/, [po??t?ä?t?o?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /po?ta.to/, [p??t???t??]

Verb

p?t?t?

1. second-person singular future active imperative of p?t?
2. third-person singular future active imperative of p?t?

Quotations

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish croqueta. Doublet of croquette.

Noun

croqueta (plural croquetas)

1. A Cuban croquette, usually made of ham, beef, chicken, or fish, and generally based on flour rather than potatoes.

Asturian

Noun

croqueta f (plural croquetes)

1. croquette (food)

Catalan

Etymology

From French croquette.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /k?o?k?.t?/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /k?u?k?.t?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /k?o?ke.ta/

Noun

croqueta f (plural croquetes)

1. croquette

Further reading

• “croqueta” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “croqueta” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.

Spanish

Alternative forms

• cocreta (nonstandard)

Etymology

From French croquette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?o?keta/, [k?o?ke.t?a]

Noun

croqueta f (plural croquetas)

1. croquette

Further reading

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