means A round, juicy, typically red fruit eaten as a vegetable in countless savory dishes, from sauces to salads.

from From Spanish 'tomate', borrowed from the Nahuatl (Aztec) word 'tomatl', meaning the swelling fruit. Spanish colonizers carried it back from the Americas, and the final '-o' crept in by analogy with 'potato'. Europeans long eyed it with suspicion, since the plant belongs to the nightshade family, and some believed it poisonous before it conquered the kitchen.