Coatzacualcos

C3O1A1T1Z10A1C3U1A1L1C3O1S1

proper noun

A city in Veracruz, Mexico.

OriginSpanish Coatzacualcos ← Nahuan →
Scrabble 28
Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

proper noun

alternative obsolete Coasaqualco

  1. A city in Veracruz, Mexico.

    And beeyng a little girle, certayne Merchantes dyd ſteale hir away in tyme of warre, and brought hir to be ſolde at the fayre of Xicalanco, whiche is a greate Towne neere Coaſaqualco, not farre diſtant from Tauaſco

    1578, Thomas Nicholas, The Pleasant Historie of the Conquest of the VVeast India, London: Henry Bynneman, translation of Historia general de las Indias by Francisco López de Gómara, page 56

Origin

  1. Nahuan
  2. SpanishCoatzacualcos
  3. EnglishCoatzacualcos

Borrowed from Spanish Coatzacualcos, from a Nahuan language; compare Classical Nahuatl Coatzacualco.

More words from Spanish, Nahuan

Full word history & related roots →
Cite this entry
APA

Coatzacualcos. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Coatzacualcos

MLA

“Coatzacualcos.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Coatzacualcos. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Coatzacualcos,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Coatzacualcos.

Source: Coatzacualcos on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.