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Name Cocoa
Gender Feminine & Masculine
Usage Pet, English (American, Rare)
Other Forms FormsCoco, Koko
Theme cocoa
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Meaning & History
Either a variant of Coco or from the English word cocoa for the cocoa bean.The word cocoa comes from the Spanish word cacao, which is derived from the Nahuatl word cacahuatl. The Nahuatl word, in turn, ultimately derives from the reconstructed Proto-Mije-Sokean word *kakawa. The confusion of this with coco is popularized by Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language.