cacao

From Spanish cacao, from Classical Nahuatl cacahuatl. Doublet of cocoa.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kəˈkɑːəʊ̯/, /kəˈkeɪ̯əʊ̯/, [kəˈkʰɑːəʊ̯], [kəˈkʰeɪ̯əʊ̯]

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• (US) IPA^(key): /kəˈkaʊ̯/, /kəˈkeɪ̯oʊ̯/, [kəˈkʰaʊ̯], [kəˈkʰeɪ̯oʊ̯]
• Rhymes: -aʊ

cacao (countable and uncountable, plural cacaos)

1. A tree, Theobroma cacao, whose seed is used to make chocolate.
2. The seed of this tree, the cocoa bean.

• cacao butter
• Cacao yellow mosaic virus

• cocoa
• crème de cacao

• cacao on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• cacau (obsolete)

Borrowed from Spanish cacao, from Classical Nahuatl cacahuatl.

• IPA^(key): /kɑˈkɑu̯/

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• Hyphenation: ca‧cao
• Rhymes: -ɑu̯

cacao m (uncountable)

1. cocoa [from late 16th c.]

• cacaoboom
• cacaoboon
• cacaoboter
• cacaomelk
• cacao-overeenkomst
• cacaopoeder

• Berbice Creole Dutch: kaukau
• Negerhollands: kwakwa
  • → Virgin Islands Creole: kwa kwa, kwakwa (archaic)
• → Caribbean Hindustani: kakáu
• → Indonesian: kakao
• → Sranan Tongo: kakaw
  • → Caribbean Javanese: kao, kekao
  • → Lokono: kakao

Borrowed from Spanish cacao, ultimately from Classical Nahuatl cacahuatl.

• IPA^(key): /ka.ka.o/

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cacao m (plural cacaos)

1. cocoa

• beurre de cacao
• cacaoté
• cacaotier
• cacaotière
• cacaoyer
• cacaoyère

• “cacao”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Spanish cacao.

• IPA^(key): /kaˈka.o/
• Rhymes: -ao
• Hyphenation: ca‧cà‧o

cacao m (invariable)

1. cocoa

• cacao in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• cacao in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa

Borrowed from French cacao; itself from Spanish cacao.

cacao f (uncountable)

1. cocoa

Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl cacahuatl (“cacao bean”). Doublet of cocoa.

• IPA^(key): /kaˈkao/ [kaˈka.o]
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• Rhymes: -ao
• Syllabification: ca‧ca‧o

cacao m (plural cacaos)

1. cacao tree

   Synonym: cacaotero

2. cocoa bean, cocoa powder
3. (colloquial) confusion

   Synonyms: desorden, confusión

   cacao mental ― bewilderment, discombobulation

• cacahual
• cacahuate, cacahuete

• “cacao”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
• cacao on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es