PERMANENT SOURCE RECORD
ALL SOURCES ↗BIBLIOGRAPHIC IDENTITYrae-aguacate
SOURCE
RECORD.
One work. Every claim that depends on it. No citation without a consequence you can inspect.
12 PUBLIC LINKS INTO THE GRAPH.
This count excludes duplicate dossier-path citations. Open the claims below to see exactly how the source is used.
historical dictionaryrae-aguacate
Aguacate — Diccionario de la lengua española
- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- Real Academia Española · Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española
- YEAR
- 2024
- PUBLISHER
- RAE · ASALE
- DOI
- Not recorded
- SOURCE TYPE
- historical dictionary
- EXTERNAL RECORD
- OPEN ORIGINAL ↗
012
CONTRARIAN TRUTH CLAIMS
RANKED REVEALS THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
RANK 70GRADE Asupports
The viral “it means testicle” story overclaims a real fact.
Nahuatl āhuacatl is documented with both avocado and testicle senses. The dictionaries establish polysemy and transmission through Spanish—not which sense named the other.
āhuacatl
āhuacatl → aguacate → avocado
Definition — ahuacatl fruit and testicleIndependently documents the polysemy without asserting derivational direction.
avocado dossier ↗truth record ↗86UNVEILING
RANK 75GRADE Asupports
The anatomical avocado story is both true and overstated.
Nahuatl āhuacatl is historically recorded with fruit and testicle senses. That establishes polysemy—not which sense named the other.
āhuacatl
āhuacatl → aguacate
Etymology: ahuacatl “fruit,” “testicle”Documents the polysemy.
aguacate dossier ↗truth record ↗86UNVEILING
023
SCHOLARLY DISAGREEMENT
DISPUTE POSITIONS THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
opensupportsboundary
Can aguacate be securely pushed deeper than āhuacatl?
Not from the reviewed sources. The institutional dictionaries reach the Nahuatl word and its historical witnesses but do not establish a deeper lexical ancestor.
Etymology endpoint at Nahuatl ahuacatlSupplies no secure deeper ancestor.
resolvedsupportsestablished
Does āhuacatl prove that the fruit was named after a testicle?
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.
Etymology: ahuacatl “fruit,” “testicle”Documents both senses without semantic direction.
resolvedsupportsestablished
Does avocado literally prove that the fruit was named “testicle”?
The source word āhuacatl is documented with both avocado and testicle senses. The reviewed dictionary entries do not establish which sense came first or that one was a deliberate anatomical naming of the other.
Definition — ahuacatl fruit and testicleIndependently documents the same polysemy.
033
CANONICAL RELATIONSHIP CLAIMS
EDGES THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
EDGE 321supportsestablished
aguacate → āhuacatl
Spanish → Classical Nahuatl · borrowing
- 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.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- Merriam-Webster Editors · RAE · ASALE editors
Definition — Del náhuatl ahuacatlIndependently derives Spanish aguacate from Nahuatl and records both senses.
EDGE 322contextboundary
āhuacatl → UNKNOWN
Classical Nahuatl → Beyond secure reconstruction · knowledge boundary
- SOUND
- No deeper form or direction of derivation between the two Nahuatl senses is promoted from the reviewed sources.
- MEANING
- The dossier preserves the attested polysemy and stops before an unsupported origin story.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- SET-U editorial boundary · Merriam-Webster Editors · RAE · ASALE editors
Etymology line — ahuacatl fruit and testicleIndependently documents the two senses but no derivational direction.
EDGE 521supportsboundary
āhuacatl → UNKNOWN
Classical Nahuatl → Beyond secure reconstruction · knowledge boundary
- SOUND
- No deeper form or semantic derivation direction is promoted beyond the documented Nahuatl word.
- MEANING
- The graph preserves fruit-and-testicle polysemy without converting it into an unsupported naming event.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- SET-U editorial boundary · RAE · UNAM
Etymology ending at Nahuatl ahuacatlDoes not supply a secure deeper ancestor or semantic direction.
040
LEXICAL ATTESTATIONS
WITNESSES REPORTED BY THIS SOURCE
No lexical witness currently cites this source.
051
COMPARATIVE EVIDENCE
COGNATES, DESCENDANTS, AND RELATIVES
aguacate
Spanishimmediate donor form from Nahuatl āhuacatl
063
GEOGRAPHIC AND TEMPORAL CLAIMS
JOURNEY STAGES THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
stage 1context
Nahuatl-speaking central Mexico
Confirms the source-language identity.
Etymology: del náhuatl ahuacatl · regionalstage 2supports
Spanish-language aguacate
Documents the current Spanish form and Nahuatl source.
Aguacate headword and etymology · globalstage 1supports
Nahuatl-speaking central Mexico
Independently identifies the Nahuatl source.
Definition — Del náhuatl ahuacatl · regional070
NON-GENEALOGICAL CONNECTIONS
HISTORICAL CONTEXT, KEPT SEPARATE
No non-genealogical context link currently cites this source.
082
WORD-FAMILY REUSE
DOSSIERS THAT DEPEND ON THIS SOURCE
4 entry-scoped citations map reviewed dossier paths onto the canonical claims above.