Where does “chocolate” come from?

chocolate (Spanish) comes from Classical Nahuatl chocolātl, from Nahuatl chicolātl.

chocolate (Spanish): chocolate; hot chocolate; hashish

Definitions

  1. chocolate; hot chocolate; hashish

Ancestry of “chocolate”, step by step

chocolate traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Classical Nahuatl chocolātl

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Classical NahuatlchocolātlA 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)
2Nahuatlchicolātl—

via Nahuatl chocolātl

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Nahuatlchocolātl—

Words derived from “chocolate”

Every word from Nahuatl chicolātl →