Where does “Cacao” come from?

Cacao (Spanish) comes from Classical Nahuatl cacahuatl, from Proto-Nahuan *kakawa-.

Cacao (Spanish): the 655th most common surname in Guatemala

Definitions

  1. the 655th most common surname in Guatemala

Ancestry of “Cacao”, step by step

Cacao traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Classical Nahuatl cacahuatl

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Classical Nahuatlcacahuatlcacao, cacao bean
2Proto-Nahuan*kakawa-—

via Nahuatl cacahuatl

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Nahuatlcacahuatlcocoa

Words derived from “Cacao”

Every word from Proto-Nahuan *kakawa- →