chocolate
English
Etymology
Via Spanish chocolate from a Nahuatl [Term?] word,[1][2][3] widely given as chocolātl (with the second element being a reflex of Classical Nahuatl ātl (“water”)), although such a word does not appear in Nahuatl until the mid-18th century according to Karttunen. Dakin and Wichmann propose chicolātl as the original form (saying it survives in several modern Nahuatl dialects) and say the chicol- element refers to a special wooden stick used to prepare chocolate.[4] Another theory is that the prefix came from Yucatec Maya chocol (“hot”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃɒk(ə)lɪt/, /ˈt͡ʃɒk(ə)lət/
- (UK, dated) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃɔːk(ə)lət/
Audio (UK) (file) - (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃɔk(ə)lət/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃɑk(ə)lɪt/, /ˈt͡ʃɔk(ə)lɪt/
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Noun
chocolate (countable and uncountable, plural chocolates)
- (chiefly uncountable) A food made from ground roasted cocoa beans.
- Chocolate is a very popular treat.
- (chiefly uncountable) A drink made by dissolving this food in boiling milk or water.
- (countable) A single, small piece of confectionery made from chocolate.
- He bought her some chocolates as a gift. She ate one chocolate and threw the rest away.
- (uncountable) A dark, reddish-brown colour/color, like that of chocolate.
- As he cooked it the whole thing turned a rich, deep chocolate.
- chocolate colour:
- (countable, slang) A black person; (uncountable) blackness.
- 1967, James David Horan, The Right Image: A Novel of the Men who Make Candidates, page 73:
- "I suppose you have some of your sweet chocolates working for you?" Barney nodded.
- 2009, Evangeline Holloway, The Reincarnation of Love, →ISBN, page 83:
- I can consume as much of you as I want to without gaining weight. Sexy chocolate is what you are.
- 2011, Ella Campbell, Torn: The Melissa Williams Story, →ISBN, page 69:
- “How is my sexy chocolate?” Mark says on the other end.
- 2012, Harry Davis, My Name Is Lucas, →ISBN:
- “Yes Lucas, you're some fine sexy chocolate”, she whispered, her long dark hair covering her face and the curves bursting out of her dress.
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Meronyms
Holonyms
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
- bar of chocolate
- choc
- choccy
- chocoholic
- chocolate-box
- chocolate chip
- chocolate leather
- chocolate phosphate
- chocolate plastic
- chocolate tree
- chocolatey, chocolaty
- compound chocolate
- dark chocolate
- hot chocolate
- milk chocolate
- modeling chocolate, modelling chocolate
- plain chocolate
- white chocolate
Related terms
Translations
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Adjective
chocolate (comparative more chocolate, superlative most chocolate)
- Made of or containing chocolate.
- Having a dark reddish-brown colour/color.
- (slang) Black (relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin).
- 2005, Patrick Goines, Unfinished Business, page 29:
- She was a chocolate honey with all the assets necessary to never have to work hard to pay her bills.
- 2010, Delores J. Dillard, Papua, New Guinea, 1983, page 27:
- Therefore, African Americans complexion range from fair to mahogony. When a baby is born, it's always a mystery of the hue of the child. Sometimes the child will be as white as the slave owner or as chocolate as a great great grandparent.
- 2011, Stephanie Stokes Oliver, Daily Cornbread, page 200:
- If you are as chocolate as an African queen, do you really think you'll look better as a bottle blonde?
- 2005, Patrick Goines, Unfinished Business, page 29:
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Verb
chocolate (third-person singular simple present chocolates, present participle chocolating, simple past and past participle chocolated)
- (transitive, rare, chiefly in the past participle) To add chocolate to; to cover (food) in chocolate.
- (rare, biology) To treat blood agar by heating in order to lyse the red blood cells in the medium.
- 1992 August 1, R. Rennie, “Laboratory and Clinical Evaluations of Media for the Primary Isolation of Haemophilus Species”, in Journal of Clinical Microbiology, volume 30, number 8, page 1917:
- Other formulations have been adopted to supply these growth factors; these include heating or "chocolating" the blood agar to release NAD directly from the erythrocytes in the agar medium.
- 2000, Ochei Et Al, Medical Laboratory Science : Theory And Practice, page 843:
- It is a chocolated blood agar but here whole horse blood is used.
- 2003, Mark A. Herbert, Haemophilus influenzae Protocols, page 73:
- The mixture is incubated at 75°C until chocolating has taken place.
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References
- “chocolate” (US) / “chocolate” (UK) in Oxford Dictionaries, Oxford University Press.
- “chocolate” in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary.
- “chocolate” in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
- Karen Dakin, Søren Wichmann, ‘Cacao and Chocolate: An Uto-Aztec perspective’ (2000), Ancient Mesoamerica, vol. 11, pages 55–75
Further reading
chocolate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - “chocolate” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- 1983, Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (University of Texas Press), page 54.
Chocolate in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Asturian
French
Verb
chocolate
- first-person singular present indicative of chocolater
- third-person singular present indicative of chocolater
- first-person singular present subjunctive of chocolater
- third-person singular present subjunctive of chocolater
Galician
Interlingua
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish chocolate, from Classical Nahuatl [Term?], possibly from xocolātl or chocolātl (a late attestation), though the etymology is unclear. See chocolate.
Quotations
- For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:chocolate.
Spanish
Etymology
From a Nahuatl [Term?] word, possibly from xocolātl or chocolātl (a late attestation), though the etymology is unclear. See chocolate.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t͡ʃokoˈlate/, [t͡ʃokoˈlat̪e]
Noun
chocolate m (plural chocolates)
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “chocolate” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.