PERMANENT DISPUTE RECORD
ALL DISPUTES ↗One scholarly question. Every attached source. The present editorial state, without pretending the last word has been written.
No. The historical dictionaries establish that one Nahuatl word had fruit and anatomical senses; they do not establish which sense came first or motivated the other.
/aɣwaˈkate/ · noun
The Spanish word for the avocado tree and fruit, borrowed from Nahuatl āhuacatl, whose historical records include both fruit and testicle senses.
DIRECT CLAIM EVIDENCE
A citation is not a vote. Each record says whether the work supports, challenges, contradicts, or contextualizes the position—and identifies the exact locus used.
Documents both senses without semantic direction.
Etymology: ahuacatl “fruit,” “testicle”Independently preserves fruit and anatomical senses.
Molina, Durán, Clavijero, and Wimmer recordsThe contrarian reveal is the documented fact plus the refusal to overclaim it.