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

1. 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.

2. A municipality of Oaxaca, Mexico

   Synonym: Santo Domingo Tehuantepec

3. 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 ?

1. Tehuantepec (a city in Oaxaca, Mexico)

   Synonym: Santo Domingo Tehuantepec

2. Tehuantepec (a municipality of Oaxaca, Mexico)

   Synonym: Santo Domingo Tehuantepec

3. Tehuantepec (a district of Oaxaca, Mexico)
4. (historical) Tehuantepec (a former federal territory of Mexico)

   Synonym: Istmo de Tehuantepec

Derived terms

• Golfo de Tehuantepec
• Istmo de Tehuantepec
• liebre de Tehuantepec
• río Tehuantepec