The story
- Classical Nahuatl · derived fromPopōcatepētl
- Mexican Spanish · borrowed fromPopocatépetl
- English todayPopocatépetl
From Mexican Spanish Popocatépetl, from Classical Nahuatl Popōcatepētl (literally “smoking mountain”), from popōca (“to smoke”) + tepētl (“mountain, hill”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.