The words ‘avocado’, ‘guacamole’, and ‘mole’ (the Mexican sauce) all come to use from Classical Nahuatl, the language of the Aztec Empire, via Spanish. In some dialects of North American Spanish, “aguacate” gradually evolved to become “avocado”, possibly under the influence of the unrelated Spanish word “abogado”, meaning “lawyer”. The word is from Spanish “mole”, which is a borrowing of Classical Nahuatl “mōlli”, meaning “sauce”, “stew” or “broth”.