Etymology

aquafaba

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Today it means: The liquid left over from boiling chickpeas or similar beans, or from a can of chickpeas. Full definition →

Latin faba ← Proto-Italic *fabā ← Proto-Indo-European *h₂ékʷeh₂
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₂ékʷeh₂
  2. Proto-Italic*akʷā
  3. Latinaqua
  4. Proto-Italic*fabā
  5. Latinfaba
  6. English todayaquafaba

Coined by US software engineer Goose Wohlt in 2015, from Latin aqua (“water”) + faba (“bean”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.