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See also: Cacao
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Spanish cacao, from Classical Nahuatl cacahuatl. Doublet of cocoa.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /kəˈkɑːəʊ̯/, /kəˈkeɪ̯əʊ̯/, [kəˈkʰɑːəʊ̯], [kəˈkʰeɪ̯əʊ̯]
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (US) IPA(key): /kəˈkaʊ̯/, /kəˈkeɪ̯oʊ̯/, [kəˈkʰaʊ̯], [kəˈkʰeɪ̯oʊ̯]
- Rhymes: -aʊ
Noun
[edit]cacao (countable and uncountable, plural cacaos)
- A tree, Theobroma cacao, whose seed is used to make chocolate.
- The seed of this tree, the cocoa bean.
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]cacao tree
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cocoa bean
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Further reading
[edit]Dutch
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- cacau (obsolete)
Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish cacao, from Classical Nahuatl cacahuatl.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cacao m (uncountable)
- cocoa [from late 16th c.]
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Berbice Creole Dutch: kaukau
- Negerhollands: kwakwa
- → Caribbean Hindustani: kakáu
- → Indonesian: kakao
- → Sranan Tongo: kakaw
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish cacao, ultimately from Classical Nahuatl cacahuatl.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cacao m (plural cacaos)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “cacao”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cacao m (invariable)
Further reading
[edit]- cacao in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- cacao in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French cacao; itself from Spanish cacao.
Noun
[edit]cacao f (uncountable)
Declension
[edit] declension of cacao (singular only)
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl cacahuatl (“cacao bean”). Doublet of cocoa.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cacao m (plural cacaos)
- cacao tree
- Synonym: cacaotero
- cocoa bean, cocoa powder
- (colloquial) confusion
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Albanian: kakao
- → Aromanian: cacauã
- → Bikol Central: kakaw
- → Catalan: cacau
- → Cebuano: kakaw
- → Czech: kakao
- → Danish: kakao
- → Dutch: cacao (see there for further descendants)
- → English: cacao, cocoa
- → Estonian: kakao
- → Finnish: kaakao
- → French: cacao
- → German: Kakao
- → Greek: κακάο (kakáo)
- → Icelandic: kakó
- → Indonesian: kakao
- → Latvian: kakao
- → Limburgish: keków
- → Lingala: kaukau
- → Lower Sorbian: kakaw, kakawa
- → Polish: kakao
- → Portuguese: cacau
- → Romagnol: cacào
- → Romanian: cacao
- → Slovak: kakao
- → Swedish: kakao
- → Tagalog: kakaw
- → Tongan: koko
- → Turkish: kakao
- → Uzbek: kakao
- → Vietnamese: cacao
Further reading
[edit]- “cacao”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- cacao on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es
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- es:Trees
- es:Mallow family plants