Mexico City

English

Etymology

Calque of Mexican Spanish Ciudad de México.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛk.sɪ.kəʊ sɪti/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛk.sɪ.koʊ sɪɾi/

Proper noun

Mexico City

2. The capital city of Mexico.

   Synonym: (rare) Mexico

   • 1971, Lyndon Johnson, “The New Age of Regionalism”, in The Vantage Point‎^[1], Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 348:

     I went to Mexico City on April 15, 1966, to unveil a statue of Abraham Lincoln, who had been a contemporary of Mexican leader Benito Juarez and was revered in Mexico, as in so many other nations.

   • 2023 November 17, Michael Snyder, “A Guide to Guadalajara, Mexico’s City of Makers”, in The New York Times Style Magazine‎^[2], archived from the original on 17 November 2023:

     The writer Juan Rulfo, whose 1955 novel, “Pedro Páramo,” still stands as the central monument of modern Mexican literature, grew up in Jalisco and vividly depicted its arid, sun-blasted landscapes in his writing, while the architect Luis Barragán, who moved from Guadalajara to Mexico City in the 1930s, carried with him an appreciation for his home state’s cloisters, haciendas and humble country buildings, which he translated in his own work as austere, inscrutable volumes of stucco.

Derived terms

• Mexico City policy

Descendants

• → Hebrew: מֶקְסִיקוֹ סִיטִי (meksiko siti)
• → Japanese: メキシコシティ (Mekishiko Shiti)
• → Korean: 멕시코시티 (meksikositi)
• → Thai: เม็กซิโกซิตี้ (mék-sí-goo-sí-dtii)

Translations

capital of Mexico

• Afrikaans: Meksikostad
• Albanian: Meksiko
• Arabic: مَكْسِيكُو m (maksīkū), مَدِينَة مَكْسِيكُو f (madīna(t) maksīkū), مِكْسِيكُو سِيتِي m (miksīkū sītī)
• Armenian: Մեխիկո (Mexiko)
• Assamese: মেক্সিকো চহৰ (meksikü sohor)
• Asturian: Ciudá de México (ast), Ciudá de Méxicu (ast)
• Azerbaijani: Mexiko
• Basque: Mexiko Hiria
• Belarusian: Ме́хіка m (Mjéxika), Мэ́хіка m (Méxika)
• Breton: Mec'hiko (br)
• Bulgarian: Ме́ксико (bg) m (Méksiko)
• Catalan: ciutat de Mèxic f, Mèxic (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 墨西哥城 (mak⁶ sai¹ go¹ sing⁴)

  Mandarin: 墨西哥城 (zh) (Mòxīgēchéng)

• Czech: Mexiko (cs) n
• Danish: Mexico City
• Dutch: Mexico (nl) n, Mexico-Stad n
• Esperanto: Meksikurbo (eo)
• Estonian: México (et)
• Farefare: Mehiko-gãn
• Faroese: Meksikobýur m
• Finnish: México (fi), Mexico City (fi)
• French: Mexico (fr) f (cf. Ville de Mexico f)
• Galician: Cidade de México (gl) f
• Georgian: ქალაქი მექსიკა (kalaki meksiḳa), მეხიკო (mexiḳo)
• German: Mexiko-Stadt (de) n, Mexiko (de) n (dated)
• Greek: Πόλη του Μεξικό f (Póli tou Mexikó)
• Guerrero Amuzgo: Sndá'
• Hebrew: מקסיקו סיטי f (meksiko siti)
• Hindi: मेक्सिको नगर (meksiko nagar)
• Hungarian: Mexikóváros (hu)
• Interlingua: Mexico (ia), citate de Mexico
• Irish: Cathair Mheicsiceo f
• Italian: Città del Messico (it) f
• Japanese: メキシコ市 (Mekishiko-shi), メキシコシティ (ja) (Mekishiko-shiti)
• Kazakh: Мехико (Mexiko)
• Korean: 멕시코시티 (Meksikositi)
• Kyrgyz: Мехико (Mehiko)
• Lakota: Spaóla Otȟúŋwahe (literally “Mexican's city”)
• Latin: Mexicopolis, Mexicum
• Latvian: Mehiko
• Lithuanian: Meksikas m
• Macedonian: Мексико m (Meksiko)
• Malay: Kota Mexico
• Maltese: il-Belt tal-Messiku
• Matlatzinca: Imtojáti
• Mixtec:

  Alcozauca: Kǒ'yo

• Nahuatl:

  Central Huasteca Nahuatl: Mexkoaltepetl

  Central Nahuatl: Altepetl Mexihco

  Classical Nahuatl: Altepetl Mexihco

  Western Huasteca Nahuatl: Mexkoaltepetl

• Navajo: Naakaii Bikin Haalʼá
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Mexico by

  Nynorsk: Mexico by

• Persian: مکزیکوسیتی (mekziko-siti)
• Polish: Meksyk (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: México (pt) m, Cidade do México (pt) f
• Romanian: Mexico (ro)
• Russian: Ме́хико (ru) m inan (Méxiko)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Мексико, Мексико Сити m

  Roman: Meksiko (sh), Meksiko Siti m

• Sicilian: Cità dû Mèssicu f
• Slovak: Mexiko n
• Slovene: Meksiko m
• Spanish: México (es) m, Ciudad de México (es) f
• Swahili: mji wa Meksiko
• Swedish: Mexico City (sv) n
• Tagalog: Lungsod ng Mehiko
• Tajik: Мехико (Mexiko)
• Thai: เม็กซิโกซิตี้ (mék-sí-goo-sí-dtii)
• Turkish: Meksika Kenti, Meksika Şehri (tr), Meksiko (tr)
• Turkmen: Mehiko
• Ukrainian: Ме́хіко (uk) m (Méxiko)
• Uzbek: Mexiko (uz)

See also

• chilango

Danish

Proper noun

Mexico City

1. Mexico City (the capital city of Mexico)

Swedish

Proper noun

Mexico City n (genitive Mexico Citys)

1. Mexico City (the capital city of Mexico)