A large ocean fish with white flaky meat that has been an important food for centuries, especially popular in European and Caribbean cuisine.
From Old Norse 'koðr' meaning cod, combined with Old English 'fisc' meaning fish. The word entered English around the 1300s and became prominent during the medieval period when cod fishing became a major commercial activity.
Cod was so valuable to European economies that it literally shaped world history—the triangular trade routes of the 1600s-1700s were built partly on dried cod trade between Europe, Africa, and the Americas, making this humble fish a silent force in colonialism.
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