Etymology

tomato

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Today it means: A widely cultivated plant, Solanum lycopersicum, having edible fruit. Full definition →

Spanish tomate ← Classical Nahuatl tomatl ← Proto-Nahuan *toma-tl
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The story

  1. Proto-Nahuan · derived from*toma-tl
  2. Classical Nahuatl · derived fromtomatl
  3. Spanish · borrowed fromtomate
  4. English todaytomato

Variant of earlier tomate, from Spanish tomate, from Classical Nahuatl tomatl, from Proto-Nahuan *toma-tl. Compare tomatillo.

Words from the same roots

Classical Nahuatltomatl all →

tomatillo

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