tomato

Borrowed from Japanese トマト (tomato), from English tomato.


tomato

Solanum lycopersicum
Solanum lycopersicum#Translingual

A widely cultivated plant, Solanum lycopersicum, having edible fruit.

Meronym: lycopene

In common parlance tomatoes are vegetables, as the Supreme Court observed long ago [see Nix v. Hedden 149 U.S. 304, 307, 13 S.Ct. 881, 882, 37 L.Ed. 745 (1893)], although botanically speaking they are actually a fruit. [26 Encyclopedia Americana 832 (Int'l. ed. 1981)]. Regardless of classification, people have been enjoying tomatoes for centuries; even Mr. Pickwick, as Dickens relates, ate his chops in "tomata" sauce.

1990, JSG Trading Corp. v. Tray-Wrap, Inc., 917 F.2d 75 (2d Cir. 1990)

The savory fruit of this plant, red when ripe, treated as a vegetable in horticulture and cooking.

tomato:

A shade of red, the colour of a ripe tomato.

Look at the legs on that hot tomato!

When she left the room, I asked Robert, “Who's the tomato?” “Marisa. She's from Mexico.” He had a telltale smile on his face.

2008, Denny Durbin, Lazy Enchiladas: Redefining Success: Tasty Lessons on Love, Life, & Relationships, Bodega Publishing, →ISBN, page 13:

That shirt makes you look like such a glorious tomato.

2015 https://www.bustle.com/articles/116384-19-old-fashioned-compliments-we-should-bring-back 19 Old-Fashioned Compliments We Should Bring Back]

“Who's the tomato?” a cop said as Evie walked past. “Her? She's the stiff's niece,” another cop answered. Evie flinched to hear Will discussed like that. “You wanna clam up?” Malloy barked and the officers fell silent.

2020, Libba Bray, The King of Crows, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, →ISBN:

en-noun

tomato (countable and uncountable, plural tomatoes)

tomatoes (plural)
tomater (alternative)
'mater (alternative)

berry

fruit, vegetable (see tomato § Fruit versus vegetable)

→ Chichewa: tomato

→ Dutch: tomaat

→ Esperanto: tomato

→ Hawaiian: komako

→ Hindustani:

Hindi: टमाटर (ṭamāṭar)

Urdu: ٹماٹر

→ Japanese: トマト (tomato)
→ Amis: tomato

→ Kashubian: tymatus

→ Korean: 토마토 (tomato)

→ Maori: tōmato

→ Swahili: tomato

Tok Pisin: tomato

→ Welsh: tomato

→ Yoruba: tòmátì

/təˈmɑː.təʊ/

Borrowed from Spanish tomate, from Classical Nahuatl tomatl, from Proto-Nahuan *tomatl. Compare tomatillo.


tomato

tomato:

Her face is on the cover: the Anne Estelle Rice portrait – or the black-eyed Japanese-bobbed head-and-shoulders bit of it – and the square-yoked dress is tomato, or pomegranate, but never persimmon. If it stayed too long in the sun and faded, well yes, maybe then…

1990, Beverley Farmer, “December”, in A Body of Water, Sydney, N.S.W.: Giramondo Publishing, published 2020, →ISBN:

And she’d slathered a heavy layer of foundation over the raw skin of her face with the end result being a complexion that was more tomato than orange.

2011, Jackie Braun, “Most Focused”, in Mr. Right There All Along (Harlequin Romance, #4258; The Fun Factor), Toronto, Ont.: Harlequin, →ISBN, page 220:

This afternoon, though, she saunters in, draped in a dress the color of a ripe tomato, with a hat to match, her hair twisted underneath in some kind of fashionable up-do that seems impossible to create oneself. […] Penny is sitting there, on the bed, next to me, chewing on the end of the pen, dressed in her frivolous tomato dress.

2013, Jillian Cantor, Margot, New York, N.Y.: Riverhead Books, →ISBN, pages 93–94 (chapter 16) and 164 (chapter 26):

Intending to tease out Shona’s know-it-all nature by spouting off some trivia, I googled the Pala d’Oro on my phone. It was pure folly, but I was kind of worried about her. “Wikipedia says the cloth has a hundred and eighty-seven enamel plaques depicting Christ and the saints that are decorated with gold, silver, and around two thousand gems.” I peeked at Shona, whose face was tomato, and continued.

2021, Traci Andrighetti, chapter 9, in Valpolicella Violet (Franki Amato Mysteries; 7), Limoncello Press, →ISBN:

Of a shade of red, the colour of a ripe tomato.

en-adj

tomato (comparative more tomato, superlative most tomato)

more tomato (comparative)
most tomato (superlative)
tomater (alternative)
'mater (alternative)

/təˈmɑː.təʊ/


tomato

(transitive, rare) to pelt with tomatoes

(transitive, rare) to add tomatoes to (a dish)

en-verb

tomato (third-person singular simple present tomatos, present participle tomatoing, simple past and past participle tomatoed)

tomatos (present singular third-person)
tomatoing (participle present)
tomatoed (participle past)
tomatoed (past)
tomater (alternative)
'mater (alternative)

/təˈmɑː.təʊ/


tomato

eo-head

tomato (accusative singular tomaton, plural tomatoj, accusative plural tomatojn)

tomaton (accusative singular)
tomatoj (plural)
tomatojn (accusative plural)

From Russian томат (tomat), German Tomate, English tomato, French tomate, all from Spanish tomate, from Classical Nahuatl tomatl.


tomato

Alianza kilimo cha malenge, mtama, tomato na sukuma wiki - na sasa anauza bidhaa zake katika soko la nyumbani.

2021 December 16, “Wakenya wapata faraja mashambani baada ya corona kuwatimua mjini”, in BBC News Swahili:

He started cultivating pumpkin, millet, tomato and sukuma wiki - and now he sells his products in the domestic market.

tomato class IX (canonical)
tomato class X (plural)


tomato

Mekim olsem pinis, orait tupela i planim taro na banana, na kumu, painap, kon, tomato, na kaukau tu.

1995, John Verhaar, Toward a reference grammar of Tok Pisin: an experiment in corpus linguistics, →ISBN, page 433:


tomato

tomatos (plural)
tomato
domato (soft)
nhomato
thomato

Borrowed from English tomato, from Spanish tomate, from Classical Nahuatl tomatl.