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Zanatepec

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish Zanatepec, from a Nahuan language, equivalent to Classical Nahuatl *Tzanatepēc (literally grackle mountain).

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Zanatepec

  1. 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
  2. A municipality of Oaxaca, Mexico
    Synonym: Santo Domingo Zanatepec