What is the magic recipe to remedy a quarrel, a grief, a temporary depression or a pain?
Chocolate!
Faithful companion of our kitchens, every occasion is good to delight the taste buds.
But have you noticed it?
Chocolate is not to be outdone in our language.
It adorns some of our formulas:
“to be pale blue chocolate”
,
“to do chocolate”
, or the unforgettable
“no arms, no chocolate”
, popularized by Omar Sy in
Intouchables.
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Where does this sweetness come from?
By far, if we are to believe the dictionaries.
It appears in a Mexican language, Nahuatl, in the
chocolatl form,
the construction of which is difficult to analyze, notes the Trésor de la langue française.
However, its suffix
"alt"
is known to mean
"water"
.
Chocolate arrived in Spain in the 16th century in the form
chocollatl
, then
chocolate
, before crossing the borders to France, in this last form, in 1598. It then designated a
“beverage made with cocoa nibs”
.
Do you know the chocolate words and expressions that populate our language?
Le Figaro
offers you to check it with this short test.