NODE / 0336attestedSpanish
aguacate
avocado fruit or tree
- DATE
- Spanish
- SENSE
- fruit
- FAMILY
- Indo-European / Italic · Romance · Ibero-Romance
- CANONICAL KEY
- node:44:aguacate:attested:sense:fruit
The date is a broad Spanish-language anchor. The RAE identifies Nahuatl ahuacatl as the source.
01ANCESTRAL EDGES
ROOT OF THIS ROOT
GO DEEPERborrowingestablished
Classical Nahuatl · Classical Nahuatl · fruit testicle polysemyāhuacatl
avocado; testicle
- SOUND
- Spanish aguacate adapted Nahuatl āhuacatl to Spanish phonology and spelling.
- MEANING
- The avocado sense was carried into Spanish, while the source word’s testicle sense did not become the ordinary Spanish fruit meaning.
- CHRONOLOGY
- Colonial-era transfer into Spanish; no invented exact year.
- SCHOLAR
- Merriam-Webster Editors · RAE · ASALE editors
- CONFIDENCE
- established — Both dictionaries explicitly give Nahuatl āhuacatl or ahuacatl and document its avocado and testicle senses.
02DIRECT DESCENDANT EDGES
THE NEXT HISTORICAL STEP
DESCENDANTborrowingestablished
Present-Day English · 1696–today · fruitavocado
the fruit or tree of Persea americana
- SOUND
- English avocado reshaped Spanish aguacate, changing both consonants and the ending in the adopted form.
- MEANING
- The fruit and tree senses continued into English.
- CHRONOLOGY
- English record by 1696.
- SCHOLAR
- Merriam-Webster Editors
- CONFIDENCE
- established — Merriam-Webster explicitly calls avocado a modification of Spanish aguacate.
03TRANSITIVE DESCENDANT CLOSURE
EVERY REVIEWED BRANCH FROM HERE
This is the complete downstream closure currently supported by the canonical graph. Every displayed step is a real reviewed edge with its own sound claim, meaning claim, scholar, confidence, and citations.
- UNIQUE DESCENDANT NODES
- 1
- REVIEWED EDGES
- 1
- DEEPEST PATH
- 1
- MODERN DOSSIERS REACHED
- 1
HISTORICAL STEP 011 EDGE
STEP 01borrowingestablished
- SOUND
- English avocado reshaped Spanish aguacate, changing both consonants and the ending in the adopted form.
- MEANING
- The fruit and tree senses continued into English.
“Every” means every descendant in the reviewed SET-U graph. It does not convert missing scholarship or missing ingestion into a claim of historical completeness. The coverage ledger remains the honest denominator.
04RECORDED EVIDENCE
ATTESTATIONS / FIRST KNOWN USE
NO RECORDED WITNESS ATTACHED.The reviewed graph does not yet attach a source-reported or directly inspected witness to this canonical form.
05EDITORIAL REUSE
WORD DOSSIERS USING THIS NODE