Etymology

sapodilla

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Today it means: A long-lived evergreen tree, Manilkara zapota, native to the New World tropics. Full definition →

Spanish sapodilla ← Nahuatl tzapocuahuitl
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The story

  1. Nahuatl · derived fromtzapocuahuitl
  2. Spanish · borrowed fromsapodilla
  3. English todaysapodilla

From Spanish sapodilla, from Nahuatl tzapocuahuitl.

Words from the same roots

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sapota

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