cacahuete

See also: cacahuète

Spanish

Alternative forms

• cacahuate (Honduras, Mexico)

Etymology

Borrowed 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

• IPA^(key): /kakaˈwete/ [ka.kaˈwe.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ete
• Syllabification: ca‧ca‧hue‧te

Noun

cacahuete m (plural cacahuetes)

1. (El Salvador, Spain) peanut (plant, seed)

   Synonyms: (Honduras, Mexico) cacahuate, maní

Descendants

• → Catalan: cacauet
• → French: cacahuète

Further reading

• “cacahuete”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10