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Cacao is the seed — and the tree — that chocolate and cocoa come from. The seeds grow in large pods on a tree in hot countries. After they are dried and roasted, people grind them; that is the start of chocolate.
Cacao Cacao is是 the seed種子 — and也是 the tree那棵樹 — that chocolate and cocoa come from是巧克力和cocoa的來源。The seeds這些種子 grow in large pods長在大果莢裡 on a tree in hot countries熱帶國家一種樹上。After they are dried and roasted曬乾、烘烤過後, people人們 grind them把它們磨碎; that is the start of chocolate那就是巧克力的起點。
English also has cocoa, historically the same word, worn down in the mouth (a ). Today many speakers keep them a little apart: cacao for the raw seed or the tree, cocoa for the powder you stir into milk.
English also英文也 has cocoa有cocoa這個字, historically the same word歷史上其實是同一個字, worn down in the mouth只是在口中被磨掉了一點音 (a doublet)（一種doublet／雙生詞）。Today今天 many speakers很多人 keep them a little apart會把兩者分開一點來用: cacao cacao for the raw seed or the tree指原本的種子或那棵樹, cocoa cocoa for the powder you stir into milk則指你攪進牛奶裡的那種粉。
On food packets you will see both, and they are not always used strictly. A bar that says 70 percent cacao is talking about how much of that seed-stuff is in it, not about a cup of hot cocoa.
On food packets食品包裝上 you will see both你會看到這兩個字都有, and而且 they are not always used strictly不見得用得很嚴謹。A bar that says 70 percent cacao標示70 percent cacao的巧克力棒 is talking about講的是 how much of that seed-stuff is in it裡面含有多少那種種子成分, not about不是在講 a cup of hot cocoa一杯熱可可。
組成From Spanish cacao, from Classical Nahuatl cacahuatl. Doublet of cocoa.
同家族的字
- cocoathe same word, worn down in speech; now often the powder, while cacao is the seed or the tree
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Cacaoname
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A barangay of Hilongos, Leyte, Philippines.
cacaonoun/kəˈkaʊ/
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A tree, Theobroma cacao, whose seed is used to make chocolate.
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The seed of this tree, the cocoa bean.
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rareCocoa (hot drink).
- Therefore they left Port à Paix just as the first streaks of gray were appearing in the east, depending on a good hot cup of cacao and a couple of bananas to nourish them sufficiently until they could enjoy the breakfast that Dave would prepare for them at the end of their morning’s share of the day’s trip. […] “Doctor, we always say ‘cocoa’ in the north, but you and all these people where it grows say ‘cacao,’ I notice. How is that?” asked Hal. / “There are four very distinct vegetable growths that have names so much alike that they are constantly mixed in the minds of those who are not botanists or do not know them in nature,” the Doctor began. “These are: Cacao berries, Coca leaves, Coco roots, and Cocoa nuts.[…]”
- Cacao was copiously used at their feasts, being colored with the red seeds of the achiote, or arnotto (Bixa orellana Linnæus), so that it resembled blood. At the festivals an intoxicating beer of corn was also copiously used and the rolled leaves of tobacco were smoked. […] And the Indians, both men and women, continued to drink the above-mentioned beverage, going and coming with it, and in the course of this drinking there were brought large cups of cacao prepared as they are accustomed to drink it.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。