cocoa
pronunciation
How to pronounce cocoa in British English:
UK [ˈkəʊkəʊ]
How to pronounce cocoa in American English:
US [ˈkoʊkoʊ]
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- Noun:
- a beverage made from cocoa powder and milk and sugar; usually drunk hot
- powder of ground roasted cocao beans with most of the fat removed
Word Origin
- cocoa
- cocoa: [18] Like chocolate, cocoa came to English from the Nahuatl language of the Aztec people. Their cacahuatl meant ‘beans of the cocoa tree’. Its first element was borrowed into Spanish as cacao. This was adopted by English in the 16th century, and remained the standard form until the 18th century, when it was modified to cocoa. Originally it was pronounced with three syllables (/ko-ko-a/), but confusion with the coco of coconut (which was also sometimes spelled cocoa) led to the current twosyllable pronunciation.
- cocoa (n.)
- powder from cacao seeds, 1707, corruption (by influence of coco) of cacao. The printing of Johnson's dictionary ran together the entries for coco and cocoa, fostering a confusion that never has been undone.
Example
- 1. Different chocolate dishes demand different percentages of cocoa solids .
- 2. A specific type of epicatechin from cocoa was given to mice twice a day for 15 days .
- 3. Consists of at least 70 percent pure cocoa .
- 4. It doesn 't have any cocoa -- or flavonoids .
- 5. Cocoa trees are originally from the rainforests of the americas .