cocoa
See also: Cocoa
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkəʊ.kəʊ/
- (US) enPR: kōʹkō, IPA(key): /ˈkoʊ.koʊ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -əʊkəʊ
- Homophone: coco
Etymology 1 edit
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.[1] Doublet of cacao.
Noun edit
cocoa (countable and uncountable, plural cocoas)
- The dried and partially fermented fatty seeds of the cacao tree from which chocolate is made.
- An unsweetened brown powder made from roasted, ground cocoa beans, used in making chocolate, and in cooking.
- (uncountable) A hot drink made with milk, cocoa powder, and sugar.
- Synonyms: chocolate, drinking chocolate, hot chocolate
- Do you like cocoa?
- 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.
- (countable) A serving of this drink.
- I like to watch TV with a cocoa.
- (countable, color) A light to medium brown colour.
- cocoa:
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Translations edit
partially fermented seeds of cacao tree
|
powder — see cocoa powder
hot drink
|
cup/mug of this drink
|
colour
|
- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
Translations to be checked
Adjective edit
cocoa (not comparable)
- Of a light to medium brown colour, like that of cocoa powder.
Translations edit
of a light to medium brown colour
See also edit
Etymology 2 edit
By confusion with cocoa, popularized by Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language.
Noun edit
cocoa
- (now nonstandard) Alternative spelling of coco.
References edit
- ^ Invalid params in call to Template:R:Johnson Dictionary: url=https://archive.org/details/b30451541_0001/page/n410/mode/1upSamuel Johnson (15 April 1755), “COCOA”, in A Dictionary of the English Language: […], volume I (A–K), London: […] W[illiam] Strahan, for J[ohn] and P[aul] Knapton; […], →OCLC, column 1: “[cacaotal, Span. and therefore more properly written cacao.]”.
Classical Nahuatl edit
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
cocoa
- (transitive) To hurt.
- (reflexive) To be ill.
Related terms edit
References edit
- 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 edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cocoa f (plural cocoas)
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “cocoa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014