cacahuete
See also: cacahuète
Spanish
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Classical Nahuatl cacahuatl (“cocoa bean”), with phonetical influence of alcahuete (“gossip”), hypothetically of Arabic origin (this influence is absent in cacahuate, the variant of the word used in Honduras and Mexico). Note that in Classical Nahuatl cacahuatl might refer to the cocoa bean, with tlālcacahuatl (literally “earth cocoa bean”) probably being the name for the peanut.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editcacahuete m (plural cacahuetes)
- (El Salvador, Spain) peanut (plant, seed)
Descendants
editFurther reading
edit- “cacahuete”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Categories:
- Spanish terms borrowed from Classical Nahuatl
- Spanish terms derived from Classical Nahuatl
- Spanish 4-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/ete
- Rhymes:Spanish/ete/4 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
- Salvadorian Spanish
- Peninsular Spanish
- es:Legumes
- es:Plants
- es:Snacks