Etymology

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java · noun1

From Java, an island on and near which a particular blend of coffee is made. The US use of the term to refer to any coffee originated in San Francisco, an early center of the US coffee trade.

java · noun2

  1. French · borrowed fromjava
  2. French · borrowed fromjava
  3. English todayjava

Borrowed from French java.

Java · proper noun, noun3

  1. Proto-Indo-European*yew-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*yéwos
  3. Proto-Indo-Iranian*yáwas
  4. Sanskritयव (yava)bor.?
  5. Proto-Austronesian*zawa
  6. Proto-Malayo-Polynesian*zawader.?
  7. Old Javanesejawa
  8. Old JavaneseJawa
  9. JavaneseJawa
  10. English todayJava

Borrowed from Javanese Jawa, via Franco-Italian and Latin, possibly from Sanskrit यव-द्वीप (yava-dvīpa, “island of barley”), used in reference to the coffee grown on Java and nearby islands since at least 1850. The programming language (initially called Oak) is a reference to java, the blend of coffee from the island.

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