Tehuantepec
English
Alternative forms
- Tecoantepeque (obsolete)
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish Tehuantepec, from a Nahuan language (equivalent to Classical Nahuatl Tēcuāntepēc (literally “mountain of wild cats (jaguars, ocelots, etc.)”)), calqued from any of multiple local languages whose names for this city have similar meanings.
Proper noun
Tehuantepec
- A city in Oaxaca, Mexico
- Synonym: Santo Domingo Tehuantepec
- 1648, Thomas Gage, The English-American his Travail by Sea and Land: Or, a New Survey of the West-India’s, London: R. Cotes, page 86:
- [The City of Guaxaca] may conſiſt of at the moſt two thouſand Inhabitants, and are governed by a Spaniſh High Juſtice called Alcalde Major, whoſe power reacheth over all the Valley, and beyond it as farre as Nixapa, and almoſt to Tecoantepeque, a Sea Towne upon Mar del Zur.
- A municipality of Oaxaca, Mexico
- Synonym: Santo Domingo Tehuantepec
- A district of Oaxaca, Mexico
Derived terms
- Isthmus of Tehuantepec
Translations
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municipality
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Spanish
Alternative forms
- Tecoantepec (obsolete)
Etymology
Borrowed from a Nahuan language (equivalent to Classical Nahuatl Tēcuāntepēc (literally “mountain of wild cats (jaguars, ocelots, etc.)”)), calqued from any of multiple local languages whose names for this city have similar meanings.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tewanteˈpek/ [t̪e.wãn̪.t̪eˈpek]
- Rhymes: -ek
- Syllabification: Te‧huan‧te‧pec
Proper noun
Tehuantepec ?
- Tehuantepec (a city in Oaxaca, Mexico)
- Synonym: Santo Domingo Tehuantepec
- Tehuantepec (a municipality of Oaxaca, Mexico)
- Synonym: Santo Domingo Tehuantepec
- Tehuantepec (a district of Oaxaca, Mexico)
- (historical) Tehuantepec (a former federal territory of Mexico)
- Synonym: Istmo de Tehuantepec
Derived terms
- Golfo de Tehuantepec
- Istmo de Tehuantepec
- río Tehuantepec