potato
English
An intact potato (vegetable) and a cross-section of a second.
Alternative forms
- potatoe (obsolete)
- p'tater, tater (dialectal or informal)
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish patata, itself borrowed from Taíno batata.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /pəˈteɪ.təʊ/, [pə̥ˈtʰeɪtʰəʊ]
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- (General American) enPR: pə-tāʹtō, IPA(key): /pəˈteɪ.toʊ/, [pə̥ˈtʰeɪɾoʊ], [pə̥ˈtʰeɪɾə]
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- Rhymes: -eɪtəʊ
Noun
potato (plural potatoes or potatos)
- The tuber of a plant, Solanum tuberosum, eaten as a starchy vegetable, particularly in the Americas and Europe; this plant.
- 2017, Anthony J. McMichael, Alistair Woodward, Cameron Muir, Climate Change and the Health of Nations, →ISBN, page 213:
- Potatoes were introduced to Ireland in 1590 after being brought to Europe by Spanish conquistadores from their place of origin in the South American Andes.
- 2021 December 1, Nigel Harris, “St Pancras and King's Cross: 1947”, in RAIL, number 945, page 42:
- The rocketing popularity of potatoes in London's diet led to the conversion of the temporary GNR passenger station north of the canal [...] as a dedicated potato terminal, whose significant traffic was stolen from coastal shipping.
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- (informal, UK) A conspicuous hole in a sock or stocking.
- Metaphor for a person or thing of little value.
- 1757, [Tobias George Smollett], The Reprisal: Or, The Tars of Old England. […], London: […] R[oberts] Baldwin, […], OCLC 219939191, Act I, scene ii:
- I don't value Monſieur de Champignon a rotten potatoe; […]
- (slang, offensive) A mentally handicapped person.
- (humorous) A camera that takes poor-quality pictures.
- (humorous, slang, computing) An underpowered computer or other device, especially when small in size.
- 2017 March 17, Steven Messner, “Overwatch community donates PC parts to fan who could barely run it at 800x600”, in PC Gamer:
- When most people refer to their computers as a potato they're being hyperbolic, but not Ethan. He plays Overwatch at 800x600 resolution with all settings on low and is excited when he gets 30 fps.
- 2019 September 22, Benjamin Burns, “Meet the people making music with Mega Drives, Game Boys and gAtaris”, in Eurogamer:
- If you want to have a go right now, then Famitracker will let you compose songs for the NES and it'll run on a Windows-operated potato.
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Synonyms
- (plant): p'tater (dialectal), spud (slang), tater (Britain, US, informal), tatie (Scotland, Cumbria, dialect), tator (eye dialect)
- (vegetable): Donovan (archaic slang), earthapple (rare), murphy, bog orange (obsolete slang), Irish apricot (obsolete slang), Irish fruit (obsolete slang), mickey
- (low-end computer): toaster (slang)
Derived terms
- air potato, air-potato (Dioscorea bulbifera)
- almond potato
- Amandine potato
- Andean potato latent virus
- Andean potato mottle virus
- Andean potato weevil (Premnotrypes spp.)
- Anna potatoes
- baby potato
- baked potato
- baking potato
- bastard potato
- Bengal potatoes
- Bintje potato
- boiling potato
- Bordet-Gengou potato blood agar
- Brazilian potato tree (Solanum wrightii)
- Burbank potato, Burbank Russet potato
- Canarian wrinkly potatoes
- Caribe potato (Solanum tuberosum)
- Carolina potato (Solanum tuberosum)
- chat potatoes
- chef's potato
- Chilean potato-tree, Chilean potato vine (Solanum crispum)
- Chinese potato (Plectranthus rotundifolius, Coleus rotundifolius)
- clean potato
- cold-potato routing
- coleus potato(Coleus rotundifolius)
- Colorado potato beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata)
- couch potato
- country potato (Coleus rotundifolius)
- Cree potato
- Delmonico potato
- duchess potatoes, duchesse potatoes
- duck potato (Sagittaria latifolia)
- false potato beetle (Leptinotarsa juncta)
- fauxtato
- fingerling potato
- finger potato
- frafra potato
- French-fried potatoes
- giant potato creeper (Solanum wendlandii)
- glasshouse and potato aphid, glasshouse-potato aphid (Aulacorthum solani)
- Greenfield potatoes
- Hausa potato (Coleus rotundifolius)
- hog potato
- hog's potato
- home-fried potatoes
- hot potato
- Indian potato (Sagittaria latifolia, (Apios americana)
- Irish potato
- Irish Potato Famine
- jacket potato
- Japanese potato (Colocasia antiquorum)
- Jersey Royal potatoes
- Jerusalem potato
- little potato
- Livingstone potato
- long white potato
- Lyonnaise potatoes
- Madagascar potato (Plectranthus rotundifolius)
- mashed potato, mashed potatoes
- meat and potatoes
- Mexican potato (Pachyrhizus erosus)
- mouse potato
- native potato (Coleus rotundifolius)
- new potato
- O'Brien potatoes
- oca potato (Oxalis tuberosa)
- one potato, two potato
- pineapple potato
- potater
- potato aphid (Macrosiphum euphorbiae)
- potato apple, potato-apple
- Potato aucuba mosaic virus
- potato badger
- potato-ball
- potato bean, potato-bean (Apios americana)
- potato beetle, potato-beetle
- Potato black ringspot virus
- potato blight
- potato blood agar
- potato-bogle
- potato-box
- potato bread
- potato bug, potato-bug
- potato cake, potato-cake
- potato cannon
- potato chips
- potato clay
- potato creeper
- potato crisps
- potato curl
- potato cyst
- potato cyst nematode (Globodera spp.)
- Potato deforming mosaic virus
- potato dextrose agar
- potato dextrose broth
- potato dumpling
- potatoe
- potato-eater
- potato eelworm, potato eel (Globodera rostochiensis)
- potatoes and point
- potatoey
- potato-eye
- potato failure
- potato family
- potato famine
- potato farls
- potato fern
- potato finger
- potato flake
- potato flour
- potato fly, potato-fly (Epicauta vittata)
- potato fork
- potato fungus (Phytophthora infestans)
- potato grant
- potato gun
- potato-headed
- potato hook
- potato-jaw
- potato kugel
- potato late blight
- Potato latent virus
- potato latke
- potato leafhopper (Empoasca fabae)
- Potato leafroll virus
- potato lectin
- potato-loaf
- potato masher, potato-masher
- potato mildew (Phytophthora infestans)
- potato-mill
- potato mold, potato mould
- Potato mop-top virus
- potato mosaic
- potato moth (Stoeberhinus testaceus)
- potato-mouth
- potato-mouthed
- potato murrain
- potato nose, potato-nose
- potato nuggets
- potato oat
- potato of Canada
- potato oil
- potato onion
- potato pancake
- potato paradox
- potato patch
- potato peel
- potato peeler, potato-peeler
- potato peelings
- potato pen
- potato pie
- potato pit
- potato plant
- potato pretender
- potato psyllid (Bactericera cockerelli)
- potato pudding
- potato puff
- potato race
- potato ricer
- potato ring, potato-ring
- potato-root
- potato root nematode (Globodera spp.)
- potato rot
- potato rot nematode (Ditylenchus destructor)
- potato rugose mosaic
- potato salad
- potato scab
- potato scab bacteria
- potato scone
- potato-scoop
- potato set
- potato-shop
- potato-sick
- Potato spindle tuber viroid
- potato spirit, potato-spirit
- potato split-worm (Phthorimaea operculella)
- potato-spraying
- potato-stalk borer, potato-stalk weevil (Trichobaris trinotata)
- potato starch
- potato stem mottle
- potato stick
- potato straw
- potato sugar
- potato trap, potato-trap
- potato tree, potato-tree
- potato tuber moth (Phthorimaea operculella)
- potato tuber nematode (Ditylenchus destructor)
- potato tuberworm (Ditylenchus destructor)
- potato tumor, potato tumour
- potato vine (Solanum wendlandii, Solanum crispum, Solanum laxum)
- Potato virus A
- Potato virus M
- Potato virus S
- Potato virus T
- Potato virus U
- Potato virus V
- Potato virus X
- Potato virus Y
- Potato War
- potato wart
- potato wart fungus (Synchytrium endobioticum)
- potato whisky
- potato-woman
- potato worm (Manduca quinquemaculata)
- potato yam (Dioscorea bulbifera)
- potato yellow dwarf
- Potato yellow dwarf nucleorhabdovirus
- Potato yellowing virus
- Potato yellow mosaic virus
- Potato yellow vein virus
- potayto, potahto
- prairie potato (Psoralea esculenta)
- Price's potato-bean (Apios priceana)
- prickly potato (Solanum triflorum)
- purple Peruvian potato
- purple potato
- red potato
- red round potato
- red-skinned potato
- russet potato
- salt potatoes
- scalloped potatoes
- sea potato (Echinocardium cordatum)
- seaside potato (Ipomoea pes-caprae)
- seed potato
- shoestring potatoes
- small potatoes, small potatoes and a few in a hill, small potatoes and a few in the hill
- smashed potatoes
- Spanish potato
- starchy potato
- swamp potato (Sagittaria spp.)
- sweet potato
- tater
- Telinga potato
- telingo potato
- ten-lined potato beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata)
- Vivaldi potato
- waxy potato
- white potato
- white potato vine
- white round potato
- Wild potato mosaic virus
- wild potato (Peltandra virginica)
- wild potato vine, wild sweet potato vine, wild sweet potato(Ipomoea pandurata)
- yellow dwarf of potato
- yellow potato
- Zulu potato, Zulu round potato
Translations
plant tuber eaten as starchy vegetable
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underpowered computer
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Adjective
potato (comparative more potato, superlative most potato)
- (computing, slang, humorous, of a computing device) Underpowered; low-end.
- I'd've captured a video of my playthrough rather than just screenshots, but my computer's too potato to comfortably run the game and a video-capture program at the same time.
Anagrams
- patoot, topato
Ido
Etymology
Borrowed from English potato.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /poˈtato/
- Rhymes: -ato
Noun
potato (plural potati)
- potato
- Synonym: terpomo
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /poˈta.to/
- Rhymes: -ato
- Hyphenation: po‧tà‧to
Participle
potato (feminine potata, masculine plural potati, feminine plural potate)
- past participle of potare
Anagrams
- optato, topato
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /poːˈtaː.toː/, [poːˈt̪äːt̪oː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /poˈta.to/, [poˈt̪äːt̪o]
Verb
pōtātō
- second/third-person singular future active imperative of pōtō