mandioca

mandioca (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) manioc
   • 1863, Henry Walter Bates, chapter IV, in The Naturalist on the River Amazons, volume 1:

     There was a kind of festival going on, and the people fuddled themselves with caxirí, an intoxicating drink invented by the Indians. It is made by soaking mandioca cakes in water until fermentation takes place, and tastes like new beer.

• “mandioca”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Borrowed from Spanish mandioca, from Old Tupi mani'oka.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [mən.diˈɔ.kə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [man.diˈɔ.ka]

mandioca f (plural mandioques)

1. manioc, cassava

   Synonym: iuca

• tapioca

• “mandioca” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Borrowed from Old Tupi mani'oka.

• Hyphenation: man‧di‧o‧ca

mandioca f (plural mandiocas)

1. manioc, cassava

• → Spanish: mandioca
  • → Middle French: manioc
    • French: manioc
      • → German: Maniok
      • → Ottoman Turkish: مانیوق
        • Turkish: manyok
      • → Romanian: manioc
    • → English: manioc
    • → Lingala: manyɔ́kɔ
    • → Romanian: manioc
• → Kongo: mandioko

Borrowed from Portuguese mandioca, from Old Tupi mani'oka.

• IPA^(key): /manˈdjoka/ [mãn̪ˈd̪jo.ka]
• (Castilian)

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• Rhymes: -oka
• Syllabification: man‧dio‧ca

mandioca f (plural mandiocas)

1. manioc plant

• → Middle French: manioc
  • French: manioc
    • → German: Maniok
    • → Ottoman Turkish: مانیوق
      • Turkish: manyok
    • → Romanian: manioc
  • → English: manioc
  • → Lingala: manyɔ́kɔ
  • → Romanian: manioc

• “mandioca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014