Masculine
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tomate

Meaning

  1. (masculine) tomato (fruit of the tomato plant)
  2. (humorous, masculine) a blushed face
  3. (masculine, mildly, plural-normally, vulgar) ball (testicle; compare colhão)

Frequency

C1
Hyphenated as
to‧ma‧te
Pronounced as (IPA)
/toˈma.t͡ʃi/
Etymology

In summary

Borrowed from Spanish tomate, from Classical Nahuatl tomatl (“tomatillo”), the tomato proper being xītomatl.

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