different between potato vs gnocchi

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

From Italian gnocchi, plural of gnocco (“dumpling”, literally “lump”), from nocchio (“knot (in wood)”), a borrowing from Lombardic knohha (“knuckle, bone, knot”), from Proto-Germanic *knuk? (“bone”), *kneukaz (“tuber, knuckle”), from Proto-Indo-European *gnew- (“knot, bundle”). Cognate with Middle High German knoche (“bone, knot”) (modern German Knochen), Middle Dutch knoke (“knuckle, knob, knot”), Swedish knoge (“knuckle”). More at knuckle.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?nj?.ki/; IPA^(key): /?n?.ki/ (sometimes proscribed)
• (US) enPR: ny??k?, IPA^(key): /?njo?.ki/

Noun

gnocchi (plural gnocchi or gnocchis)

1. Italian pasta-like dumplings made of potato or semolina.

Translations

Further reading

• gnocchi on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Finnish

Etymology

From Italian gnocchi.

Noun

gnocchi

1. gnocchi

   Söin gnoccheja lounaaksi.

   I ate gnocchi for lunch.

Usage notes

The Italian plural word has been adopted into Finnish as a singular.

Declension

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.ki/

Noun

gnocchi m (plural gnocchis)

1. gnocchi

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???k.ki/

Noun

gnocchi m pl

1. plural of gnocco
2. a dish of gnocchi

Descendants

• ? Catalan: nyoqui
• ? English: gnocchi
• ? Finnish: gnocchi
• ? French: gnocchi
• ? Korean: ?? (nyoki)
• ? Polish: gnocchi
• ? Spanish: ñoqui

Polish

Etymology

From Italian gnocchi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???k.k?i/

Noun

gnocchi n (indeclinable)

1. gnocchi

Further reading

• gnocchi in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• gnocchi in Polish dictionaries at PWN