tomate
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
Gender
♂️ Masculine
Pronounced as (IPA)
/toˈma.t͡ʃi/
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish tomate, from Classical Nahuatl tomatl (“tomatillo”), the tomato proper being xītomatl.
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