Where does “cocoa” come from?
Cocoa derives from Spanish cacao, from Nahuatl cacahuatl, from Proto-Nahuan kakawatl, the name for the cacao tree and its beans.
cocoa (English): The dried and partially fermented fatty seeds of...
Definitions
- The dried and partially fermented fatty seeds of...
Ancestry of “cocoa”, step by step
Words derived from “cocoa”