What is the origin of the word "avocado"?

pgpm10

"The word originated from South American Indian language where it originally meant " testicle ". The Spanish conquistadors took the word back to Spain where it became altered to literally mean " advocate ". The English borrowed the word and altered it to become " alligator pear "" http://www.unm.edu/~dave/words/avocado.html Jan 03 10, 1:47 AM

queproblema

Copy and paste from http://www.answers.com/topic/avocado The history of avocado takes us back to the Aztecs and their language, Nahuatl, which contained the word ahuacatl meaning both "fruit of the avocado tree" and "testicle." The word ahuacatl was compounded with others, as in ahuacamolli, meaning "avocado soup or sauce," from which the Spanish-Mexican word guacamole derives. In trying to pronounce ahuacatl, the Spanish who found the fruit and its Nahuatl name in Mexico came up with aguacate, but other Spanish speakers substituted the form avocado for the Nahuatl word because ahuacatl sounded like the early Spanish word avocado (now abogado), meaning "lawyer." In borrowing the Spanish avocado, first recorded in English in 1697 in the compound avogato pear (with a spelling that probably reflects Spanish pronunciation), we have lost some traces of the more interesting Nahuatl word. Jan 03 10, 10:49 AM