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abricó

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(masculine) apricot (fruit)
(Brazil, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, masculine) ellipsis of abricó-do-pará

Pronounced as (IPA)

/a.bɾiˈkɔ/

Borrowed from French

abricot

In summary

Borrowed from French abricot, from Catalan abrecoc, ultimately from Arabic اَلْبَرْقُوق (al-barqūq, “plums”), from Byzantine Greek βερικοκκία (berikokkía), from Ancient Greek πραικόκιον (praikókion), from Late Latin (malum) praecoquum, from earlier Latin (persicum) praecox (literally “over-ripe peach”). Doublet of precoce.