Nachos - Wiktionary

English

[edit]

English Wikipedia has an article on:nachosWikipedia

Etymology 1

[edit]

Borrowed from Mexican Spanish nachos, from Nacho. Nacho is a common diminutive form of Ignacio (“Ignatius”) in Spanish. The Mexican creator of the dish, Ignacio Anaya (1895–1975), named it after himself in 1943: Nacho's Especiales.[1]

Pronunciation

[edit]

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈnætʃəʊz/
• (General American) IPA(key): /ˈnɑt͡ʃoʊz/, /nɑt͡ʃɒs /

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: (General American) -ɑtʃoʊz

Noun

[edit]

nachos pl (plural only)

1. A Mexican dish of tortilla chips, covered in melted cheese and sometimes other ingredients.

Derived terms

[edit]

• my very educated mother just served us nachos
• naco
• reheat nachos
• reheat someone's nachos
• totchos
• want someone's nachos

Translations

[edit] dish

German: Nachos (de) m pl Polish: nachos (pl) pl, naczos (pl) pl Swedish: nachos (sv) n pl Yiddish: נאַטשאָס pl (natshos)

Noun

[edit]

nachos

1. plural of nacho

Etymology 2

[edit]

Pronunciation

[edit]

• IPA(key): /ˈnɑxəs/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

[edit]

nachos (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of naches.

References

[edit]

1. ^ Adriana P. Orr (July 1999), “Nachos, anyone?”, in Oxford English Dictionary‎[1], archived from the original on 15 February 2006:And to add to the satisfaction, we have recently[…] been able to verify a quotation from that elusive 1954 St Anne's Cookbook which confirms the existence of Ignacio ‘Nacho’ Anaya, gives the Victory Club as the place in which he invented his ‘nacho specials’, and provides his own original recipe.

Anagrams

[edit]

• Chason, Cohans, Sancho, anchos

French

[edit]

Noun

[edit]

nachos

1. plural of nacho

Italian

[edit]

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:nachosWikipedia it

Noun

[edit]

nachos m pl (plural only)

1. nachos

Polish

[edit]

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:nachosWikipedia pl

Alternative forms

[edit]

• naczos

Etymology

[edit]

Unadapted borrowing from Mexican Spanish nachos.

Pronunciation

[edit]

• IPA(key): /ˈna.t͡ʂɔs/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -at͡ʂɔs
• Syllabification: na‧chos

Noun

[edit]

nachos m inan (indeclinable)

1. nacho

Declension

[edit]

Indeclinable

or:

Declension of nachos

singular	plural
nominative	nachos	nachosy
genitive	nachosa	nachosów
dative	nachosowi	nachosom
accusative	nachosa	nachosy
instrumental	nachosem	nachosami
locative	nachosie	nachosach
vocative	nachosie	nachosy

Further reading

[edit]

• nachos in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

[edit]

Pronunciation

[edit]  

• (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈna.t͡ʃus/

• (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈna.t͡ʃus/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ˈna.t͡ʃuʃ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈna.t͡ʃos/

 

• (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈna.ʃuʃ/, /ˈna.t͡ʃuʃ/

• (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈna.ʃuʃ/, /ˈna.t͡ʃuʃ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈna.t͡ʃuʃ/

• Hyphenation: na‧chos

Noun

[edit]

nachos

1. plural of nacho

Spanish

[edit]

Adjective

[edit]

nachos m pl

1. masculine plural of nacho

Noun

[edit]

nachos m pl

1. plural of nacho