Etymology

toloache

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Today it means: Angel's trumpet, an annual plant of species Datura inoxia. Full definition →

Spanish toloache ← Classical Nahuatl toloatzin
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  1. Classical Nahuatl · derived fromtoloatzin
  2. Spanish · borrowed fromtoloache
  3. English todaytoloache

Borrowed from Spanish toloache, from Classical Nahuatl toloatzin, from toloa (“to bow the head”) + tzin (reverential). Doublet of toloatzin.

Words from the same roots

Classical Nahuatltoloatzin all →

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