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      Chocolate: historia de un nahuatlismo Translated title: Chocolate: The Story of a Nahuatlism

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          La palabra chocolate, que designa la bebida más famosa del nuevo Mundo, está rodeada de un enigma. Se discute su etimología y su origen y no aparece en ningún texto o fuente hasta la década de 1570. Antes se usó la palabra náhuatl cacáhuatl (agua de cacao), para designar la bebida que tomaban los pipiltin. En este trabajo se hace una búsqueda de la etimología, origen y difusión de la palabra chocolate y se hace la propuesta de que se deriva de chocóllalt, vocablo que usa el protomédico Francisco Hernández para nombrar a una de las bebidas que se hacían con el cacao.

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          The word chocolate, which gives name to the most famous beverage of the new World, has been enigmatic. Its etymology and origin have been the subject of discussion and there is no text or source about it until the decade of 1570. Long before, the word cacáhuatl was used meaning "cacao water" to name another beverage exclusive of the pipiltin. In this paper, the etymology, origin and diffusion of the word chocolate are investigated. The author proposes it is derived from chocóllatl, a word that, according to the proto-physician Francisco Hernández, referred to the beverages made with cacao.

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                ecn
                Estudios de cultura náhuatl
                Estud. cult. náhuatl
                Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas (Ciudad de México, Ciudad de México, Mexico )
                0071-1675
                December 2013
                : 46
                : 37-87
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                [01] orgnameUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de México orgdiv1Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas
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                S0071-16752013000200003 S0071-1675(13)04600000003
                0ffa94a7-ebbd-44d3-8ff7-62d3d8c6a732

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                chile,xícara,metate,molinillo,chocolate,xócoatl,cacáhuatl,cacao
                chile, xícara, metate, molinillo, chocolate, xócoatl, cacáhuatl, cacao

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