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México
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Mexico
English
Proper noun
en Mexico.
en Robert S[amuel] Weddle Finding the Gateway San Juan Bautista: Gateway to Spanish Texas Austin, Tex.; London w:University of Texas Press 1968 3 https://archive.org/details/sanjuanbautistag0000wedd/page/3/mode/1up 68-19154 From the capital city of México the trail pointed northward. It meandered through the rugged mountains of the Sierra Madre Oriental, out across the tablelands of the Central Plateau.
en John Douglas Lynch Introduction Genera of Leptodactylid Frogs in México University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History volume 17, number 11 Lawrence, Kan. w:University of Kansas 20 March 1968 505 https://archive.org/details/biostor-51918/page/505/mode/1up Syrrhophus and Tomodactylus are small assemblages that occur only in southwestern United States, México, and Guatemala.
en John Annerino Seeing Ghosts Dead in Their Tracks: Crossing America’s Desert Borderlands in the New Era Tucson, Ariz. w:University of Arizona Press 2009 113 https://books.google.com/books?id=2PAMAQAAMAAJ&q=Salvadore%C3%B1os 978-0-8165-2765-6 Among the worst mass deaths of immigrants in the history of the U.S.–México borderlands, thirteen Salvadoreños died in Alamo Wash in neighboring Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument on July 5–6, 1980;
en Barry Matthew Robinson The Mark of Rebels: Indios Fronterizos and Mexican Independence Tuscaloosa, Ala. w:University of Alabama Press 2016 51 https://books.google.com/books?id=7u1ADAAAQBAJ&pg=PA51 978-0-8173-1920-5 Consequently, it chose to eliminate any possibility of Don Antonio serving as a strong alternate authority to the function of the Junta, by placing him on the top of the list of cabecillas to be arrested and sent to México.
Related terms
en Puerto México
Galician
gl:
Etymology
gl :bor es:México Mexico ++
Pronunciation
Mèxico
gl Mé xi co
Proper noun
m
gl country continent/North America Mexico
Derived terms
gl mexicano
Portuguese
pt:
Etymology
pt :bor es:México Mexico ++
Pronunciation
[x:sh]
pt ɛʃiku 3
pt Mé xi co
Proper noun
m
pt country continent/North America Mexico
pt 2005 Gil Felippe No Rastro de Afrodite – Plantas Afrodisíacas e Culinária http://books.google.com.br/books?id=bP-96-3CEi8C&pg=PA33#v=onepage&q&f=false 9788574802329 33 Ateliê Editorial Havia formas já selecionadas de abacaxi ou ananás na época pré-colombiana. É considerado o fruto mais saboroso da América e os primeiros indícios de seu cultivo são do México.
pt Cidade do México Mexico City pt
Derived terms
pt mexicano Novo México
Spanish
es:
Alternative forms
es Méjico chiefly _ Spain uncommon
es Meshico
Etymology
es :bor nci:Mēxihco
es nci Mēxihco, originally a toponym for the Valley of Mexico. Aside from the element nci -co, the Nahuatl locative suffix, the exact morphology of this place-name remains es 1.
It has been suggested to be derived from nci Mexihtli Mēxihtli, a name belonging to the Aztecs' patron god Huitzilopochtli, in which case the associated locative name could be interpreted as ("place of Huitzilopochtli" or “place where Huitzilopochtli lives”). Another hypothesis suggests the name to be a portmanteau of the words nci mētztli moon + nci xīctli navel, hence the hypothetical original form *Mētzxīcco, meaning “place at the navel/center of the moon”, perhaps referring to the city of Tenochtitlan's position in Lake Texcoco, which was the central lake of a system of interconnected lakes whose shape was likened to that of a rabbit by the Aztecs, an animal associated to the moon. If that is the case, then the sound of tz /t͡s/ in mētz- would have been absorbed into the initial x /ʃ/ of -xīc-, while the geminate cc /kː/ in -xīcco would've been transformed into the consonant cluster hc /ʔk/. A third hypothesis suggests a derivation incorporating nci metl maguey (stem me-), perhaps from nci Mēctli, a maguey goddess.
Pronunciation
Méjiko<audio:Es-mx-México.ogg<a:Mexico>> Méshiko<aa:Early Modern> +
Proper noun
m
es country continent/North America Mexico
es Jordan Valinsky Google Maps cambiará el nombre del golfo de México por el de "golfo de Estados Unidos" w:CNN en Español https://cnnespanol.cnn.com/2025/01/28/eeuu/google-maps-golfo-de-mexico-por-el-golfo-de-america-trax 2025-01-28 Y en un guiño a las contribuciones del golfo de México a la economía estadounidense, Trump está “ordenando que se le cambie oficialmente el nombre a golfo de América”. https://web.archive.org/web/20260312181327/https://cnnespanol.cnn.com/2025/01/28/eeuu/google-maps-golfo-de-mexico-por-el-golfo-de-america-trax 12 March 2026
es state c/Mexico Toluca State of Mexico Mexico State
es Estado de México
es Mexico es capital city c/Mexico Mexico City
es Ciudad de México
Derived terms
es Estado de México golfo de México mexicano mexiquense Nuevo México Ciudad de México
Descendants
nl Mexico 1
1 en Mexico
eo Meksiko 1
fo Meksiko 1
fr Mexique 1
de Mexiko 1
el Μεξικό 1
ja メヒコ 1 Mehiko
ko ^메히꼬 1
pl Meksyk 1
pt México 1
sk Mexiko 1
tl Mehiko 1
vi Mê-hi-cô 1
yi מעקסיקע 1
See also
Further reading
Vietnamese
vi
Etymology
vi :bor es:México
Borrowed from vi es México.
Proper noun
vi Mexico Q96
Synonyms
Mặc Tây Ca
Mễ
Mễ Tây Cơ
Mê-hi-cô
vi exonyms