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- Spanish · borrowed fromMesoamérica
- English todayMesoamerica
Borrowed from Spanish Mesoamérica, coined by German-Mexican anthropologist Paul Kirchhoff in 1943. By surface analysis, meso- + America.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mesoamerica
Today it means: A pre-Columbian cultural region extending from southern Mexico to roughly the area that comprises modern Honduras and El Salvador. Full definition →
Spanish Mesoamérica