Mamey
/ˈmæmeɪ/noun
A tropical American fruit with sweet orange flesh, especially the fruit of the mamey sapote.
Did you know?Mamey is ultimately a Taíno loanword, preserving an Indigenous Caribbean name that entered Spanish after European contact with the New World.
Etymological Timeline
Pre-Columbian
Taíno
mamey
“The name of the tropical fruit”
16th Century
Spanish
mamey
“A tropical fruit imported from the Caribbean and mainland Americas”
17th–18th Century
English
mamey
“A borrowed name for the tropical fruit in English descriptions and trade writing”
Modern English
English
mamey
“The common name for the fruit, especially mamey sapote”