potato – English noun declension

English noun forms of potato

Noun: potato
Singularpotato
Pluralpotatoes

Sample Sentences

  • Do not let your child have potato for another year; he will probably take milk well enough after he is weaned. [1891, “Condensed Replies to Various Letters”, in Leroy M[ilton] Yale, editor, Babyhood: The Mother’s Nursery Guide, Devoted to the Care of Children, volume VII, New York, N.Y.; London: Babyhood Publishing Company, page 230, column 2:]
  • The protein value of this dish is equal to that of 1⅛ pounds of potato and beef, the fuel value, however, being much in excess of these. [1912, C[harles] F[ord] Langworthy, Caroline L[ouisa] Hunt, Cheese and Its Economical Uses in the Diet (Farmers’ Bulletin 487), Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, page 24:]
  • A number of the children said that they had potato for breakfast, potato and herring for dinner, potato and milk for supper. [1915, Annual Report of the Local Government Board for Scotland, page 17:]
  • What was that about potatoes? Were they just a thing from foreign parts, like coffee; a luxury, an extra? Oh, the potato is a lordly fruit; drought or downpour, it grows and grows all the same. It laughs at the weather, and will stand anything; only deal kindly with it, and it yields fifteen-fold again. … A man may lack grain to make bread, but give him potatoes and he will not starve. Roast them in embers, and there is supper; boil them in water, and there's a breakfast ready. [1917, Knut Hamsun, Growth of the Soil, Book 1, Ch.4, at p.34]
  • Although the potato actually has no exciting value, it was believed, in the seventeenth century, to possess definite aphrodisiac qualities, and is frequent mentioned in this respect in Elizabethan drama. [1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 195:]
  • 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. [2017, Anthony J. McMichael, Alistair Woodward, Cameron Muir, Climate Change and the Health of Nations, →ISBN, page 213:]
  • 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. [2021 December 1, Nigel Harris, “St Pancras and King's Cross: 1947”, in RAIL, number 945, page 42:]
  • She was untidily dressed as usual and there were potatoes in both heels. [1943, Agatha Christie, The Moving Finger:]
  • I don't value Monſieur de Champignon a rotten potatoe; […] [1757, [Tobias Smollett], The Reprisal: Or, The Tars of Old England. […], London: […] R[oberts] Baldwin, […], →OCLC, Act I, scene ii, page 8:]
  • 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. [2017 March 17, Steven Messner, “Overwatch community donates PC parts to fan who could barely run it at 800x600”, in PC Gamer, archived from the original on 01 Feb 2018:]
  • 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. [2019 September 22, Benjamin Burns, “Meet the people making music with Mega Drives, Game Boys and gAtaris”, in Eurogamer, archived from the original on 27 Jun 2026:]

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish patata, itself borrowed from Taíno batata (“sweet potato”). See: Spanish Nouns 'patata'.

Verbs referencing "potato"

Norwegian Bokmål Nouns potet, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns potet.