chocolate

[Mark Mandel]

"Cahvvæ" is coffee, an exotic word treated as 1st declension, genitive
singular.

I got no hits for "Cahvvæ" (pasted from your post, with double v and an
a-e-ligature) in the second link, so I guessed and tried Cahvvae (unligated
"ae"). One hit, at http://tinyurl.com/y9km9ka -- at leaf 39, section C in
the original pagination (only right-hand pages are numbered, and each
half-page has an index letter in the margin). It appears as you gave it, but
the OCR read it as a+e. My transcription and translation:

Sic non solum Cahvvæ aut Coffi decoctum, sed Chocoladæ, denique herbæ Theé
Europæi condire saccharo instituti sunt...

So the Europeans established the custom of seasoning with sugar not only the
brew of Cahvva or Coffi, but of Chocolate, and indeed the herb Tea ...

Marcus Mandelensis

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 1:47 AM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> Here are the two books I was going to mention. The first is the volume
> Chocolata Inda, the second is on tobacco, but includes several mentions
> of Chocolata, Coffi, Thee and Cahvvæ (not even sure what the latter is).
> http://books.google.com/books?id=uSk7AAAAcAAJ
>
> http://books.google.com/books?id=CHBAAAAAcAAJ
>
> At some point, I will actually try to make sense of all this, unless
> someone beats me to it.
>
>     VS-)
>
>

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