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Where does “ocelot” come from?
ocelot (Italian) comes from French ocelot, from Nahuatl ōcēlōtl.
ocelot
(Italian): ocelot cat
Definitions
ocelot cat
Ancestry of “ocelot”, step by step
Step
Language
Word
Meaning
1
French
ocelot
ocelot
2
Nahuatl
ōcēlōtl
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