Coatzacualcos

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish Coatzacualcos, from a Nahuan language; compare Classical Nahuatl Coatzacualco.

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Coatzacualcos

  1. A city in Veracruz, Mexico.
    • 1578, Thomas Nicholas, The Pleasant Historie of the Conquest of the VVeast India, London: Henry Bynneman, translation of Historia general de las Indias by Francisco López de Gómara, page 56:
      And beeyng a little girle, certayne Merchantes dyd ſteale hir away in tyme of warre, and brought hir to be ſolde at the fayre of Xicalanco, whiche is a greate Towne neere Coaſaqualco, not farre diſtant from Tauaſco

Spanish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from a Nahuan language; compare Classical Nahuatl Coatzacualco.

Proper noun

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Coatzacualcos ?

  1. A city in Veracruz, Mexico