chocolade
See also: Chocolade
Dutch
Alternative forms
- chocolaad (archaic)
Etymology
From Spanish chocolate, from a Nahuatl [Term?] word, though it is not clear precisely which one. See chocolate for more.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌʃoː.koːˈlaː.də/
audio (file) - Hyphenation: cho‧co‧la‧de
Usage notes
In the past some dictionaries prescribed a feminine gender, likely because of analogy with terms that have the ending -ade. This prescription does not seem to have had any basis in common usage or etymology, however.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Descendants
- Afrikaans: sjokolade
- → Lokono: sokolati
- → Aukan: sukaati
- → Caribbean Hindustani: shokolá
- → German: Schokolade (see there for further descendants)
- → Indonesian: coklat, cokelat, cokola, soklat
- → Petjo: tjoklat
- → West Frisian: sûkelade
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