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The word cocoa is simply a derivative of cacao.

The cacao tree is native to the Americas. It may have originated in the foothills of the Andes in the Amazon and Orinoco basins of South America where today, examples of wild cacao still can be found.

The cacao plant was first given its botanical name by Swedish natural scientist Carolus Linnaeus in his original classification of the plant kingdom, who called it Theobroma ("food of the gods") cacao.

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"Cocoa" is derived from the cacao beans mainly located in Brazil. They still use these cacao beans today to make chocolate in all forms.

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From the Aztec language Nahuatl via Spanish. From the words "choco-atl" meaning bitter water.

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From the Mexican dialect Nahuatl, xococ, meaning bitter. Brought to Europe by the Spanish in 1520

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=The root word for chocolate is coco!=

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