cocoa

cocoa · noun, adjective¹

1. Classical Nahuatl · derived fromcacahuatl
2. Spanish · borrowed fromcacao
3. English todaycocoa

From Spanish cacao, from Classical Nahuatl cacahuatl. The form cocoa came about by confusion with coco, popularized by Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language. Doublet of cacao.

cocoa · noun²

By confusion with cocoa, popularized by Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language.

Words from the same roots