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Wherever you got that from has it backwards (it's a myth commonly repeated). The fruit name came first: > In Molina's Nahuatl dictionary "auacatl" is given als
by crazygringo 1y ago
Wherever you got that from has it backwards (it's a myth commonly repeated). The fruit name came first:
> In Molina's Nahuatl dictionary "auacatl" is given also as the translation for compañón "testicle", and this has been taken up in popular culture where a frequent claim is that testicle was the word's original meaning. This is not the case, as the original meaning can be reconstructed as "avocado" – rather the word seems to have been used in Nahuatl as a euphemism for "testicle".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avocado?wprov=sfti1#Etymology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avocado?wprov=sfti1#Etymology
- mixmastamyk 1y agoAlso "avocado" is an older variant of "abogado," which means lawyer in Spanish. English must have mixed these up.
- contingencies 1y agoObrigado, my good fellow.
- mixmastamyk 1y agoArigato, Mr. Roboto!
- pluies 1y agoAnd French completed this merge by having both "lawyer" and "avocado" translate to "avocat".
- socalgal2 1y agoIf I understand correctly, that's also where the Dutch "advocaat" liqueur comes from. They were trying to reproduce sweet avocado drinks, there were no avocados in Europe, so they made something up they thought tasted similar.