Colorado
See also: colorado and Cô-lô-ra-đô
English
Etymology
From Spanish colorado (“red, ruddy, colored”), usually from the reddish appearance of some silt-laden rivers, or from Portuguese colorado in the case of Brazilian locations.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /kɑləˈɹɑdoʊ/, /kɑləˈɹædoʊ/[1]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kɒləˈɹɑːdəʊ/
- (obsolete) IPA(key): /kɒləˈɹeɪdoʊ/[2]
Audio (US); /kɑləˈrɑdoʊ/: (file) Audio (US); /kɑləˈrædoʊ/: (file) - Rhymes: -ɑːdəʊ, -ædəʊ
Proper noun
Colorado
- Places in North America:
- A major river of western North America, running from the Rocky Mountains in the United States to the Gulf of California in Mexico.
- Meronym: humpback chub
- 1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 29:
- A million cascade brooks unite to form a thousand torrent creeks ; a thousand torrent creeks unite to form half a hundred rivers beset with cataracts ; half a hundred roaring rivers unite to form the Colorado, which rolls, a mad, turbid stream, into the Gulf of California.
- A state in the western United States, the 38th state. Capital and largest city: Denver.
- 1878, "Colorado", Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. VI, p. 162:
- The mountains of Colorado were, till a comparatively recent date, richly clothed with forest; but owing partly to natural causes, and still more to the lavish consumption and reckless destruction of the early settlers, the quantity of growing timber in the State is exceedingly small, and before long, if restorative measures are not adopted, the Colorado demand for wood will require to be supplied from without. Whole mountain sides often present the appearance of monstrous cheavaux-de-frise, the dead trunks of the wind-thrown pines being tossed about in all directions.
- 2023 June 21, Haley Talbot and Kristin Wilson, “House votes to censure Democratic congressman who led Trump investigations”, in CNN[1]:
- The vote was 213-209 along party lines. Republican members of the House Ethics Committee – Michael Guest of Mississippi, Dave Joyce of Ohio, Andrew Garbarino of New York, John Rutherford of Florida and Michelle Fischbach of Minnesota – voted present. GOP Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado also voted present but he is not on the Ethics Committee.
- 1878, "Colorado", Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. VI, p. 162:
- A river in Texas in the United States, flowing into the Gulf of Mexico.
- An unincorporated community in Texas, United States.
- (historical) The Territory of Colorado, a former territory of the United States.
- (historical) A ghost town in California, United States.
- A major river of western North America, running from the Rocky Mountains in the United States to the Gulf of California in Mexico.
- Places in South America:
- A river in southern Argentina, running from the Andes into the Atlantic.
- A municipality of Paraná, Brazil.
- A municipality of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
- A village in the Dominican Republic.
- Places in the Philippines:
- A sitio in the barangay of Twin Peaks, Tuba, Benguet, Philippines.
- A barangay of San Guillermo, Isabela, Philippines.
- A barangay of Digos, Davao del Sur, Philippines.
- A barangay of Jabonga, Agusan del Norte, Philippines.
Derived terms
- CO
- Coloradan
- Coloradoan
- Colorado beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata)
- Colorado blue spruce (Picea pungens)
- Colorado bristlecone pine (Pinus aristata)
- Colorado bur (Solanum rostratum)
- Colorado City
- Colorado County
- Colorado Desert
- Colorado fir (Abies concolor)
- Colorado four o'clock (Mirabilis multiflora)
- Colorado green spruce (Picea pungens)
- Colorado pinyon (Pinus edulis)
- Colorado Plateau
- Colorado potato beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata)
- Colorado River
- Colorado soldier beetle (Chauliognathus basalis)
- Colorado Springs
- Colorado spruce (Picea pungens)
- Colorado State
- Colorado topaz
- Little Colorado
Translations
major river
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US state
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See also
States: Alabama · Alaska · Arizona · Arkansas · California · Colorado · Connecticut · Delaware · Florida · Georgia · Hawaii · Idaho · Illinois · Indiana · Iowa · Kansas · Kentucky · Louisiana · Maine · Maryland · Massachusetts · Michigan · Minnesota · Mississippi · Missouri · Montana · Nebraska · Nevada · New Hampshire · New Jersey · New Mexico · New York · North Carolina · North Dakota · Ohio · Oklahoma · Oregon · Pennsylvania · Rhode Island · South Carolina · South Dakota · Tennessee · Texas · Utah · Vermont · Virginia · Washington · West Virginia · Wisconsin · Wyoming |
Federal district: Washington, D.C. |
Territories: American Samoa · Guam · Northern Mariana Islands · Puerto Rico · United States minor outlying islands · United States Virgin Islands |
References
- ^ Both variants are found among Colorado natives.
- ^ Hall, Joseph Sargent (2 March 1942) “2. The Vowel Sounds of Unstressed and Partially Stressed Syllables”, in The Phonetics of Great Smoky Mountain Speech (American Speech: Reprints and Monographs; 4), New York: King's Crown Press, , →ISBN, § III.5, page 81.
Further reading
- Colorado on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Colorado on Wikiquote.Wikiquote
- Colorado on Wikivoyage.Wikivoyage
- Category:Colorado on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Catalan
Proper noun
Colorado m
- Colorado (a state in the western United States, the 38th state)
Central Nahuatl
Proper noun
Colorado
- Colorado (a state in the western United States, the 38th state)
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from English Colorado.
Proper noun
Colorado (genitive Colorados)
- Colorado (a state in the western United States, the 38th state)
Finnish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkolorɑ(ː)do/, [ˈko̞lo̞ˌrɑ̝(ː)do̞]
- Rhymes: -ɑdo
Proper noun
Colorado
- Colorado (a state in the western United States, the 38th state)
Declension
Inflection of Colorado (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | Colorado | — | |
genitive | Coloradon | — | |
partitive | Coloradoa | — | |
illative | Coloradoon | — | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Colorado | — | |
accusative | nom. | Colorado | — |
gen. | Coloradon | ||
genitive | Coloradon | — | |
partitive | Coloradoa | — | |
inessive | Coloradossa | — | |
elative | Coloradosta | — | |
illative | Coloradoon | — | |
adessive | Coloradolla | — | |
ablative | Coloradolta | — | |
allative | Coloradolle | — | |
essive | Coloradona | — | |
translative | Coloradoksi | — | |
abessive | Coloradotta | — | |
instructive | — | — | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Derived terms
compounds
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English Colorado.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔ.lɔ.ʁa.do/
Audio: (file)
Proper noun
le Colorado m
- Colorado, Colorado River (a major river of western North America, running from the Rocky Mountains in the United States to the Gulf of California in Mexico)
- Colorado (a state in the western United States, the 38th state)
- Hypernym: État
- Holonym: États-Unis
Derived terms
German
Etymology
From Spanish colorado, partly through English Colorado.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌkɔloˈʁaːdo/
- IPA(key): /ˌkɔləˈɹaːdo/ (rare and only for the US places)
Audio: (file)
Proper noun
Colorado n (proper noun, genitive Colorados or (optionally with an article) Colorado)
- Colorado (a state in the western United States, the 38th state)
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English Colorado, from Spanish colorado.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ko.loˈra.do/
- Rhymes: -ado
- Hyphenation: Co‧lo‧rà‧do
Proper noun
Colorado m
- Colorado (a state in the western United States, the 38th state)
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ko.loˈɾa.du/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ko.loˈɾa.do/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ku.luˈɾa.du/ [ku.luˈɾa.ðu]
- Hyphenation: Co‧lo‧ra‧do
Proper noun
Colorado m
- Colorado, Colorado River (a major river of western North America, running from the Rocky Mountains in the United States to the Gulf of California in Mexico)
- Colorado (a state in the western United States, the 38th state)
- a town and municipality of Paraná, Brazil
- a town and municipality of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Romanian
Proper noun
Colorado n
- Colorado (a state in the western United States, the 38th state)
Slovak
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈkɔlɔraːdɔ]
Proper noun
Colorado n (genitive singular Colorada, declension pattern of mesto)
- Colorado (a state in the western United States, the 38th state)
References
- “Colorado”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /koloˈɾado/ [ko.loˈɾa.ð̞o]
- Rhymes: -ado
- Syllabification: Co‧lo‧ra‧do
Proper noun
Colorado m
- Colorado (a state in the western United States, the 38th state)
Related terms
See also
- Colorado on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es