jacuzzi

Where does the word "jacuzzi" come from? It comes from Italian Jacuzzi, and was adopted directly into English (1968).

Jacuzzi’s story begins in Italian: Jacuzzi meant “a family name.” A family from Casarsa della Delizia in Friuli; seven brothers emigrated to California in the 1900s-1920s and built aircraft propellers and pumps. It reached English by 1968 as Jacuzzi. In the 1940s Candido Jacuzzi adapted a pump to give hydrotherapy to his son, who had rheumatoid arthritis, and the family marketed it from 1956; Roy Jacuzzi launched the integrated whirlpool bath in 1968. Today, jacuzzi means a large bath with underwater jets of water (trademark).

1. Stage 1 · Italian · 1900s Jacuzzi "a family name", a family from Casarsa della Delizia in Friuli; seven brothers emigrated to California in the 1900s-1920s and built aircraft propellers and pumps.
2. Stage 2 · American English · 1968 Jacuzzi "whirlpool bath", in the 1940s Candido Jacuzzi adapted a pump to give hydrotherapy to his son, who had rheumatoid arthritis, and the family marketed it from 1956; Roy Jacuzzi launched the integrated whirlpool bath in 1968.