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aguacate
The Spanish word for the avocado tree and fruit, borrowed from Nahuatl āhuacatl, whose historical records include both fruit and testicle senses.
“Aguacate preserves the Indigenous source more transparently than English avocado. The famous anatomical story rests on real Nahuatl polysemy, but the evidence still does not prove which sense named the other.”OPEN COMPLETE WORD DOSSIER ↗
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Spanishaguacate
avocado fruit or tree
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Classical Nahuatl · Classical Nahuatlāhuacatlavocado; testicle
- SOUND CHANGE
- Spanish aguacate adapted Nahuatl āhuacatl to Spanish phonology and spelling.
- SEMANTIC CHANGE
- The avocado sense was carried into Spanish, while the source word’s testicle sense did not become the ordinary Spanish fruit meaning.
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- Merriam-Webster Editors · RAE · ASALE editors
- CONFIDENCE
- established — Both dictionaries explicitly give Nahuatl āhuacatl or ahuacatl and document its avocado and testicle senses.
- CHRONOLOGY
- Colonial-era transfer into Spanish; no invented exact year.
3 CITATIONSAvocado — Word HistoryWord History — Etymology Aguacate — Diccionario de la lengua españolaDefinition — Del náhuatl ahuacatl Ahuacatl — Gran Diccionario NáhuatlAhuacatl entries and translations, including Molina 1571 AUDIT CANONICAL EDGE 321 ↗
Gives Spanish aguacate from Nahuatl āhuacatl with avocado and testicle senses.
ORIGINAL ↗Independently derives Spanish aguacate from Nahuatl and records both senses.
ORIGINAL ↗Independently documents the historical Nahuatl form and its fruit and anatomical senses.
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