Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tehuantepec

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.86 in modern English

Syllables: tehuan-te-pec
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A city in Oaxaca, Mexico.

name

A municipality of Oaxaca, Mexico.

name

A district of Oaxaca, Mexico.

Example Sentences

"[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."

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.

Origin

Source language: Spanish

Word Breakdown

Root: Tehuantepec

Inflected Forms

Tecoantepeque (alternative, obsolete)

Phrases

Isthmus of Tehuantepec

Synonyms

Santo Domingo Tehuantepec

Questions

What does tehuantepec mean?: A city in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Where does tehuantepec come from?: It is traced to Spanish.

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