Zanatepec
English
Alternative forms
- Sanatepeque (obsolete)
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish Zanatepec, from a Nahuan language, equivalent to Classical Nahuatl *Tzanatepēc (literally “grackle mountain”).
Proper noun
Zanatepec
- A town in Oaxaca, Mexico
- Synonym: Santo Domingo Zanatepec
- 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 90:
- In Sanatepeque wee met with a Frier who gave us ſtately entertainment, and from thence gave us Indians to guide us to Tapanatepeque
- A municipality of Oaxaca, Mexico
- Synonym: Santo Domingo Zanatepec