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Where did caffeine get its name?

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"Caffeine" is derived from "coffee", one of the plants that contains caffeine. In some other languages, the spelling is more similar; for example in German, coffee is called "Kaffee", and in Spanish it is called "café".

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The word caffeine is derived from the German “Kaffebase” or the French “Caffeebase”. These words mean coffee base and came into use around 1819. The first time caffeine was described in print (in the French form caféine from the French word for coffee, café) was in an article published in the French Dictionnaire de Médecine in 1822.

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