Mexican

mexican Mexičan English Etymology en :bor es:mexicano en es mexicano, from en nah mexihcah mēxihcah plural of nah mexihcatl mēxihcatl a Mexica + es -ano -an. en Mexico -an. en Mexicano. Pronunciation en /ˈmɛksɪk(ə)n/ RP en /ˈmɛksək(ə)n/ GA en /ˈmɛksəkɪn/ US,Non-Standard en En-au-Mexican.ogg AU en Mex ic an Noun ~ en obsolete A Mexica; an Aztec. en 1660 Joseph Hall The Shaking of the Olive-Tree 260 Surely, nature it ſelf calls to us for this reſpect to a deity, even the very ſavage Indians may teach us this point of religion; amongſt whom we find the Mexicans, a people that had never had any intercourſe with the other three parts of the World, Eminent in this kinde; what ſumptuous, and ſtately Temples had they erected to their Devils: How did they enrich their miſ-called Gods with Magazins of their treaſure? en 1677 Richard Gilpin Daemonologia Sacra, or, a Treatise of Satans Temptations 255–256 Not unlike to this were thoſe morſels of Paſte, which the Mexicans uſed in their Religious Feaſts, which they laid at their Idols Feet, conſecrating them by Singing and other Ceremonies, and then they called them the Fleſh and Bones of their God Vitziliputzli 1782, review of Storia antica del Messico, in The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature, vol. 54, p. 144 The Aztecheſe, or Mexicans, were the laſt who arrived in Anahuac. en obsolete The Nahuatl language. en 1856 Arthur Helps The Spanish Conquest in America 2 239 Painala was in the Mexican province of Coatzacualco: she was accordingly able to speak Mexican. A person from the country of Mexico or of Mexican descent. en 2011-10-15 Phil McNulty Liverpool 1 - 1 Man Utd w:BBC Sport http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/15225853.stm The Mexican levelled nine minutes from time after Steven Gerrard, making his first start since undergoing groin surgery in April, put Liverpool ahead with a 68th-minute free-kick. https://web.archive.org/web/20120129073752/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/15225853.stm 29 January 2012 en Michael Rios, Verónica Calderón and Fidel Gutierrez ‘It’s absurd’: Mexicans mock and shrug off Trump’s order to rename Gulf of Mexico w:CNN https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/28/americas/mexicans-mock-trump-gulf-of-mexico-intl-latam/index.html 2025-01-28 When Google announced it was complying with US President Donald Trump’s executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, many Mexicans responded with a laugh and a long, exhausted sigh. https://web.archive.org/web/20250217110818/https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/28/americas/mexicans-mock-trump-gulf-of-mexico-intl-latam/index.html 17 February 2025 The Mexican dialect of Spanish. en 1970 Stan Steiner La raza: the Mexican Americans 224 "You see, I never learned to speak Spanish, but speak Mexican fluently," he says disarmingly. en 1998 Richard Montoya; Ricardo Salinas; Herbert Siguenza Culture Clash: Life, Death, and Revolutionary Comedy http://books.google.com/books?id=-1KilWXcLOQC&pg=PA23&dq=speak+mexican&lr=&ei=vAi4SMWIHIHaygSZ_pzHBA&sig=ACfU3U2yOrvwXAizs7qPJEcGcBBdfonzEw 23 You really scare me when you speak Mexican. en 2000 Ben K. Green The Village Horse Doctor: West of the Pecos 87 I didn't speak much Mexican, but I savvied a lot more than I could speak and picked the word banditos out of their conversation. en 2014 David Ayer Fury Columbia Pictures DON COLLIER: Hey, you want to talk Mexican, join another tank, a Mexican tank. en any Spanish-speaking country en US slang offensive A person from, or of descent from, any Spanish-speaking country. https://web.archive.org/web/1/https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/fox-news-apologizes-graphic-about-3-mexican-countries-n989526 en 2019 Claire Atkinson Fox News apologizes for graphic about '3 Mexican countries' NBC News Fox News issued an apology on Sunday for an on-screen graphic that mistakenly indicated President Donald Trump was reducing aid to "three Mexican countries." en What kind of Mexican are you? en Australia slang chiefly New South Wales Queensland A Victorian (a person from the state of Victoria). en Australia slang Queensland A person from either of the southern states of New South Wales and Victoria. en uncountable Mexican or Mexican-derived cuisine; whether traditional Mexican food or Tex-Mex, etc. en I'm hungry. Want to go out for Mexican? Synonyms Mexica en Mexica, en Aztec, en el goblino, en la goblina language en Nahuatl, en Aztec Derived terms en Blaxican Messican Mexamerican regional Mexican Mexcrement Mexican American Mexicoon Afro-Mexican Mexican't Mexicunt Mexishit Mexer Blaxican Mexipino Texican Translations Mexica Nahuatl language Nahuatl person from Mexico or of Mexican descent Albanian: sq meksikan m Arabic: ar مَكْسِيكِيّ m, ar مَكْسِيكِيَّة f Armenian: hy մեքսիկացի Asturian: ast mexicanu m, ast mexicana f Azerbaijani: az meksikalı Belarusian: be мексіка́нец m, be мексіка́нка f Bulgarian: bg мексика́нец m, bg мексика́нка f Catalan: ca mexicà m, ca mexicana f Chickasaw: cic Oshpaani' Chinese: Cantonese: yue 墨西哥人 mak6 sai1 go1 jan4 Mandarin: cmn 墨西哥人 Czech: cs Mexičan m, cs Mexičanka f Danish: da mexicaner Dutch: nl Mexicaan m, nl Mexicaanse f Esperanto: eo meksikiano, eo meksikianino woman Estonian: et mehhiklane Finnish: fi meksikolainen French: fr Mexicain m, fr Mexicaine f Galician: gl mexicano m Georgian: ka მექსიკელი German: de Mexikaner m, de Mexikanerin f Greek: el Μεξικανός m, el Μεξικανή f, el Μεξικάνα f Hawaiian: haw Mekiko Hindi: hi मेक्सिकी Hungarian: hu mexikói Icelandic: is Mexíkói m, is Mexíkani m Irish: ga Meicsiceach m Italian: it messicano Japanese: ja メキシコ人 メキシコじん, Mekishikojin Korean: ko 멕시코인, ko 멕시코 사람 Latvian: lv meksikānis m, lv meksikāniete f Lithuanian: lt meksikietis m, lt meksikietė f Macedonian: mk Мексика́нец m, mk Мексика́нка f Marathi: mr मेक्सिकन Navajo: nv Naakáí dinéʼiʼ Norwegian: Bokmål: nb mexicaner m, nb meksikaner m Nynorsk: nn mexican m, nn mexicanar m, nn meksikan m, nn meksikanar m Occitan: oc mexican m, oc mexicana f Persian: Iranian Persian: fa-ira مِکْزیکی Plautdietsch: pdt Meksikauna m, pdt Meksikaunasche f Polish: pl Meksykanin m-pr, pl Meksykanka f Portuguese: pt mexicano m, pt mexicana f Romanian: ro mexican m, ro mexicană f, ro mexicancă f Russian: ru мексика́нец m, ru мексика́нка f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: sh Мексика́нац m, sh Мексиканка f Latin: sh Meksikánac m, sh Meksikanka f Slovak: sk Mexičan m, sk Mexičanka f Slovene: sl Mehičan m, sl Mehičanka f Spanish: es mexicano, es mejicano m, es mexicana, es mejicana f Swahili: sw Mmeksiko Swedish: male or neutral sv mexikan c, female sv mexikanska c Tajik: tg мексикагӣ Taos: twf kwę́na Turkish: tr Meksikalı Ukrainian: uk мексика́нець m, uk мексика́нка f Unami: unm Spanayu Mexican dialect of Spanish Mexican Spanish person of any Spanish-speaking country Esperanto: eo hispano m, eo latinamerikano m Finnish: fi latino from Americas only Spanish: es latino m, es hispano m, es mexicano Adjective en obsolete Of or pertaining to the Mexica people. en obsolete Of or pertaining to the Nahuatl language. en 1795 W. Winterbotham An Historical, Geographical, Commercial, and Philosophical View of the American United States 4 87 The principal grain of Mexico, before the introduction of thoſe from Europe, was maize, in the Mexican language called tluolli, of which there were ſeveral kinds, different in ſize, weight, colour, and taſte. 1810, review of "Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain", in The Eclectic Review The language most universally diffused over the new continent, is the Aztec or Mexican. Of, from, or pertaining to the country of Mexico. en Rocío Muñoz-Ledo, Avery Schmitz, Veronica Calderon A cartel war bleeding Sinaloa dry: homicides rise 400% in the year after the fall of ‘El Mayo’ w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/18/americas/mexico-killings-sinaloa-cartel-kingpin-latam-intl 2025-08-18 In the first year of her administration, ACLED data shows, Sheinbaum’s efforts to contain violence have generally coincided with a drop in attacks against civilians; since January, civilian killings have declined in nearly every Mexican state. https://web.archive.org/web/20260513045455/https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/18/americas/mexico-killings-sinaloa-cartel-kingpin-latam-intl 13 May 2026 Synonyms people en Mexica, en Aztec language en Nahuatl, en Aztec Derived terms en Afro-Mexican Blaxican Cal-Mex driving while Mexican First Mexican Empire interior Mexican Mexamerican Mexican-American Mexican-American War Mexican bamboo Mexican black hawk Mexican breadfruit Mexican breakfast Mexican campion Mexican catchfly Mexican cedar Mexican chicken bug Mexican clover Mexican coriander Mexican cypress Mexican eagle Mexican elm Mexican Empire Mexican feather grass Mexican feathergrass Mexican free-tailed bat Mexican garter snake Mexicanism Mexicanist Mexicanity Mexicanization Mexicanize Mexican jumping bean Mexican morning glory Mexican mud turtle Mexican needlefish Mexicanness Mexican orange Mexican paintbrush Mexican persimmon Mexican pink Mexican plum Mexican poppy Mexican red rump Mexican scammony Mexican Silicon Valley Mexican snowball Mexican standoff Mexican star Mexican street corn Mexican sunflower Mexican tea Mexican turnover Mexican War Mexican wave Mexican white pine Mexican wrestling Mexican yam Mexican yam bean Mexifornication Mexipino non-union Mexican equivalent Quebexican Second Mexican Empire Texican Translations of or pertaining to the Mexica people Mexica of or pertaining to Nahuatl language Nahuatl of or pertaining to Mexico Arabic: ar مَكْسِيكِيّ Asturian: ast mexicanu Azerbaijani: az meksikalı Belarusian: be мексіка́нскі Bulgarian: bg мексика́нски Catalan: ca mexicà m, ca mexicana f Czech: cs mexický m Danish: da mexicansk Dutch: nl Mexicaans Esperanto: eo meksikia, eo meksika Estonian: et mehhiko Finnish: fi meksikolainen French: fr mexicain Galician: gl mexicano Georgian: ka მექსიკური German: de mexikanisch Greek: el μεξικάνικος Hawaiian: haw Mekiko Hungarian: hu mexikói Icelandic: is mexíkóskur Irish: ga Meicsiceach Italian: it messicano Kazakh: kk мексикалық, kk мексикандық Latin: la mexicānēnsis m f New Latin Latvian: lv meksikāņu Lithuanian: lt meksikietiškas, lt meksikiečių Norwegian: Bokmål: nb mexicansk, nb meksikansk Nynorsk: nn mexicansk, nn meksikansk Occitan: oc mexican m, oc mexicana f Persian: Iranian Persian: fa-ira مِکْزیکی Polish: pl meksykański Portuguese: pt mexicano Romanian: ro mexican m, ro mexicană f Russian: ru мексика́нский Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: sh мѐксичкӣ Latin: sh mèksičkī Slovak: sk mexický Slovene: sl mehiški Spanish: es mexicano Swedish: sv mexikansk Tajik: tg мексикагӣ Ukrainian: uk мексика́нський Welsh: cy Mecsicanaidd en autohyponyms en Demonyms Mexico Nationalities