cocoa的词源

英文词源

cocoa: cocoa: [18] Like chocolate, cocoa came to English from the Nahuatl language of the Aztec people. Their cacahuatl meant ‘beans of the cocoa tree’. Its first element was borrowed into Spanish as cacao. This was adopted by English in the 16th century, and remained the standard form until the 18th century, when it was modified to cocoa. Originally it was pronounced with three syllables (/ko-ko-a/), but confusion with the coco of coconut (which was also sometimes spelled cocoa) led to the current twosyllable pronunciation.
cocoa (n.): powder from cacao seeds, 1707, corruption (by influence of coco) of cacao. The printing of Johnson's dictionary ran together the entries for coco and cocoa, fostering a confusion that never has been undone.

来自南美土著语cacahuatl, 词源同chocolate, cacao.

该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：cocoa 词源，cocoa 含义。

墨西哥士著居名把可可树叫做caucauatl.西班牙人嫌这个叫法绕嘴，把它简化为cacao.进入英语后写做cocoa。