Patata
/pəˈtɑː.tə/noun
A potato.
Did you know?English potato ultimately comes from Spanish patata, which blended names for two different American crops, showing how colonial trade could scramble words as thoroughly as it scrambled the world.
Etymological Timeline
Pre-Columbian
Taíno
batata
“sweet potato”
Pre-Columbian
Quechua
papa
“potato”
16th Century
Spanish
patata
“potato; originally influenced by batata and papa”
16th-17th Century
Spanish
patata
“potato”
17th Century
English
potato
“potato”