chocolate

[Victor Steinbok]

OED has no Cahvvae under "alternative spellings", although it does have
Cauwa and Cahve, and there is a 1653 citation in the first cluster for
"Cahve house..[where they drink Cahve]".

I am also somewhat disconcerted by the fact that "cup of coffee" entry
is folded into 1.b. "A light repast ... or a final course at dinner". I
understand that the two are related--perhaps "coffee" for "cup of
coffee" is derived from those two, but it seems to be the only use of
"coffee" that can take a plural.

I am also puzzled that 4.a. includes "dandelion coffee", but not
"chicory coffee", which has quite a past in the 20th century and the
only beverage demanded by some who avoid actual coffee.

This is actually a good one, as one early find is 1879 Supreme Court
Reporter entry.

http://bit.ly/aMUnoV
Chester A. Arthur v. Emil Herold. Decided Nov. 24, 1879
> The plaintiffs gave some evidence to show that a different article
> from the imported article called "patent chicory," or "chicory
> coffee," was made by an admixture of water and foreign ingredients.

This is that much more interesting because the case hinged on a 1864
import duty act that imposed a duty on chicory imported into the US. In
any case, chicory coffee is certainly more important than dandelion
coffee and deserves at least a link to Chicory if not, indeed, a
specific citation under Coffee.

I am also wondering if Coffee Mug and Coffee Filter don't deserve to be
under special compounds. The former is a monosyllabic extension of
"coffee", just like "coffee-cup" and coffee-pot (the latter apparently
deserving a separate article, and the latter is a ubiquitous term in
cooking (used for filtering practically anything).

     VS-)

On 3/26/2010 10:26 PM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
> Thanks for the clarification--explains why it occurs mostly in
> conjunction with Coffi. But there is certainly more than one hit, just
> not under that spelling. Incidentally, the page you found can also be
> found by looking for Chocolada, so I suspect most "ae" are treated by
> Google OCR as plain "a".
>
> And wouldn't your signature by Marcus Amygdalus?
>
>     VS-)
>
> On 3/26/2010 9:18 PM, Mark Mandel wrote:
>> "Cahvv=C3=A6" is coffee, an exotic word treated as 1st declension,
>> genitive
>> singular.
>>
>> I got no hits for "Cahvv=C3=A6" (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 Cahvv=C3=A6 aut Coffi decoctum, sed Chocolad=C3=A6,
>> denique herb=C3=A6 The=C3=A9
>> Europ=C3=A6i 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 Cahvv=C3=A6 (not even sure what the
>>> latter is).
>>>      http://books.google.com/books?id=3DuSk7AAAAcAAJ
>>>
>>> http://books.google.com/books?id=3DCHBAAAAAcAAJ
>>>
>>> At some point, I will actually try to make sense of all this, unless
>>> someone beats me to it.
>>>
>>>      VS-)
>>>
>>>
>>
>

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