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

city

Huave: Latiüc
Mixe:
Coatlán: Caanɨɨm

Isthmus: Kanëëmp

Totontepec: Caa Na̱ꞌm
Mixtec:
Teposcolula: Yutañaña
Spanish: Tehuantepec, Santo Domingo Tehuantepec
Zapotec:
Isthmus: Izii

Yatzachi: Yezeꞌe

Zoogocho: Yaꞌazeꞌe

municipality

Spanish: Tehuantepec, Santo Domingo Tehuantepec

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