Where does “vegelate” come from?
vegelate (English) comes from English vegetable, from Middle English vegetable, from Old French vegetable, from Latin vegetabilis, from Latin vegeto, from Latin vegetus, from Latin vegeo, from Proto-Italic wegeō — lively, awake; strong.
vegelate (English): Chocolate containing vegetable fat
Definitions
- Chocolate containing vegetable fat
Ancestry of “vegelate”, step by step
vegelate traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English vegetable
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | vegetable | Any plant; A plant raised for some edible part of... |
| 2 | Middle English | vegetable | — |
| 3 | Old French | vegetable | — |
| 4 | Latin | vegetabilis | animating, enlivening, vivifying; able to produce... |
| 5 | Latin | vegeto | I arouse, enliven, quicken, animate, invigorate;... |
| 6 | Latin | vegetus | enlivened, lively, animated, vigorous, active,... |
| 7 | Latin | vegeo | I move, excite, quicken, arouse; I am lively or... |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | wegeō | to be active, lively |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | wegejō | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | woǵ-éye- | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | weǵ- | lively, awake; strong |
via English chocolate
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | chocolate | A food made from ground roasted cocoa beans; A... |
| 2 | Spanish | chocolate | chocolate; hot chocolate; hashish |
| 3 | Classical Nahuatl | chocolātl | A drink with pulverized toasted cacao beans and water, described as cold and foamy. Sometimes fermented and sometimes as a thick drink. It can include a variety of additional ingredients (chili, bee honey, pochotl seeds, pulverized maize corn, vanilla seeds, and many others) |
| 4 | Nahuatl | chicolātl | — |