Etymology

achiote

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Today it means: A tropical American evergreen shrub, Bixa orellana; the lipstick tree. Full definition →

Spanish achiote ← Classical Nahuatl āchiyōtl
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The story

  1. Classical Nahuatl · derived fromāchiyōtl
  2. Spanish · borrowed fromachiote
  3. English todayachiote

Borrowed from Spanish achiote, from Classical Nahuatl āchiyōtl.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.