The Spanish and Portuguese word for avocado, the green pear-shaped fruit rich in healthy fats.
From Nahuatl 'ahuacatl,' the language of the Aztecs, adopted into Spanish during the colonial period and later into English as 'avocado' through phonetic evolution.
The Aztecs domesticated avocados thousands of years before Europeans found them—'aguacate' and 'avocado' are the same word transformed by different languages, showing how conquest and trade reshape our vocabulary and diets.
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