The story
- Classical Nahuatl · derived fromāhuacatl“avocado”
- Spanish · borrowed fromavocado
- English todayavocado
Borrowed from Latin American Spanish avocado, from the earlier aguacate, which comes from Classical Nahuatl āhuacatl (“avocado”). Doublet of abacate. Compare aguacatillo, avocadillo. The first mention can be found in a catalogue of Jamaican plants in 1696.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.