Is 'tomato' English, or is it actually Portuguese?

'Tomato' is a word borrowed from Portuguese 'tomate'. The word entered the English language some time around 1604.

tomato [noun] [1604]

• the usually large rounded typically red or yellow pulpy berry of an herb (genus ) of the nightshade family native to So...
• a plant that produces
• one ( syn. ) that is a tender perennial widely cultivated as an annual for its edible fruit

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Etymology: Alteration of earlier 'tomate' from Spanish, from Nahuatl 'tomatl'

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