Azcapotzalco
English
Alternative forms
- Atzcapotzalco
- Azcapuzalco (obsolete)
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish Azcapotzalco, from Classical Nahuatl Āzcapōtzalco, from āzcapōtzalli (“anthill”) + -co (locative suffix).
Proper noun
Azcapotzalco
- (historical) A Tepanec polity in the Valley of Mexico.
- 2006, Aguilar-Moreno, Manuel, Handbook to Life in the Aztec World, Facts On File, →ISBN, page 66:
- Around 1371, Tenochtitlan became a subordinate to the expanding Tepanec city-state of Azcapotzalco, the first society to rise to empire status since the fall of Tula 300 years before.
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- One of the demarcaciones territoriales (designated delegaciones until 2016) of Mexico City.
Classical Nahuatl
Etymology
āzcapōtzalli (“anthill”) + -co (“locative suffix”)
Proper noun
Azcapotzalco
- Azcapotzalco.
- 1645, Carochi, Horacio, Arte de la lengua mexicana con la declaracion de los aduerbios della (in Spanish), Mexico: Iuan Ruyz, pages 120v–121r:
- çan yenōyuhqui ic ōquintlàpalòquè in Tlaxcaltēcatlàtòquè, in quēnin ōquitlàpalòquè in Atzcapotzalco [sic] Tlàtoāni, ſaludaron à los Principales de Tlaxcala, de la meſma manera, que al Señor de Azcapuzalco.
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Spanish
Alternative forms
- Atzapotzalco, Ascaposalco, Azcapuzalco
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl Āzcapōtzalco, from āzcapōtzalli (“anthill”) + -co (locative suffix).
Pronunciation
- (Castilian) IPA(key): /aθkapodˈθalko/, [aθkapoðˈθalko]
- (Latin America) IPA(key): /askapodˈsalko/, [askapoðˈsalko]
Proper noun
Azcapotzalco ?
- Azcapotzalco