Editing Chocolate (section)

==Etymology==
[[File:Kakaw (Mayan word).png|thumb|[[Maya script|Maya glyph]] for cacao]]

Cocoa is a variant of cacao, likely arising from a confusion with the word [[Coconut|coco]].<ref name="Swanton-2024" /> Through cacao, it is ultimately derived from ''kakaw(a)'', but whether that word originates in [[Nahuatl]] or a [[Mixe–Zoque languages|Mixe-Zoquean]] language is the subject of substantial linguistic debate.<ref name="Swanton-2024">{{Cite journal |last=Swanton |first=Michael |date=May 9, 2024 |title=Mesoamerican mantic names as an etymological source of Mixtec vocabulary |journal=Ancient Mesoamerica |volume=35 |issue=2 |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |pages=619–644 |doi=10.1017/S0956536124000026 |doi-access=free}}</ref>{{Sfnp|Dakin|Wichmann|2000|p=56}} Chocolate is a Spanish loanword, first recorded in English in 1604,<ref>{{Cite OED|term=chocolate|id=4410701122|access-date=July 16, 2024}}</ref> and first recorded in Spanish in 1579.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Swanton |first1=Michael |last2=de Ávila |first2=Alejandro |last3=van Doesburg |first3=Bas |date=2010 |title=Comments on Kaufman and Justeson: "The History of the Word for Cacao in Ancient Mesoamerica" |journal=Ancient Mesoamerica |volume=21 |issue=2 |pages=435 |doi=10.1017/S0956536111000186}}</ref> The word for chocolate drink in early Nahuatl texts is ''cacahuatl'' meaning "cacao water", which chocolate does not immediately derive from.{{sfnp|Coe|Coe|2013|pp=117}}

Despite theories that chocolate is derived from ''xocoatl'' meaning "bitter drink" or ''chocolatl'' meaning "hot water"{{Sfnp|Kaufman|Justeson|p=226|2007}}{{Sfnp|Coe|Coe|2013|p=118}} and uncertainty around the Nahuatl origin, there is a consensus that it likely derives from ''chicolatl''.{{Sfnp|Kaufman|Justeson|2007|p=193}} Whether ''chicolatl'' means "cacao beater", however, is contested, due to difficulty knowing what chico means.{{Sfnp|Kaufman|Justeson|2007|p=218}}

The term "[[chocolatier]]", for a chocolate confection maker, is recorded from 1859.<ref>{{Cite OED|term=chocolatier|id=2267654095|access-date=16 July 2024}}</ref>