Masculine
Meaning
- (masculine) tomato (fruit of the tomato plant)
- (humorous, masculine) a blushed face
- (masculine, mildly, plural-normally, vulgar) ball (testicle; compare colhão)
Frequency
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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