Definition
A tropical American tree or its fruit, also called the sapodilla; valued for its sweet fruit and medicinal bark.
Etymology
From Spanish chapote or Nahuatl (Aztec language) origin, reflecting indigenous Mesoamerican knowledge of this tree. The word entered English through Spanish colonizers' accounts of New World plants.
Kelly Says
The sapodilla/chapote was so important to indigenous peoples that it appears in Aztec codices—it provided food, medicine, and even a substance used in ancient chewing gum long before modern Chicle industry.
Translations
CACatalà
chapote
tʃa-pote
CSČeština
chapote
tʃa-pote
DEDeutsch
Chapote
ˈtʃa.po.tə
ELΕλληνικά
τσαποτέ
tsa-pote
ESEspañol
chapote
cha-po-te
FRFrançais
chapote
ʃa.pɔ.t
HUMagyar
chapote
tʃa-pote
IDBahasa Indonesia
chapote
tʃa-po-te
ITItaliano
chapote
tʃa-po-te
MSBahasa Melayu
chapote
tʃa-po-te
MYမြန်မာ
ချပိုးတ
tʃa-po-te
NLNederlands
chapote
tʃa-po-te
PLPolski
chapote
tʃa-pote
PTPortuguês
chapote
ʃa-po-tɛ
RORomână
chapote
tʃa-pote
RUРусский
чапота
tʃa-pota
SVSvenska
chapote
tʃa-pote
SWKiswahili
chapote
tʃa-pote
TAதமிழ்
சாப்போட்ட
sa-po-tta
TRTürkçe
chapote
tʃa-pote
UKУкраїнська
чапота
tʃa-pota
VITiếng Việt
chapote
cha-po-te