Meanings
alternative obsolete Tecoantepeque
- A city in Oaxaca, Mexico.
[The City of Guaxaca] may conſiſt of at the moſt two thouſand Inhabitants, and are governed by a Spaniſh High Juſtice called Alcalde Major, whoſe power reacheth over all the Valley, and beyond it as farre as Nixapa, and almoſt to Tecoantepeque, a Sea Towne upon Mar del Zur.
1648, Thomas Gage, The English-American his Travail by Sea and Land: Or, a New Survey of the West-India’s, London: R. Cotes, page 86Synonyms: Santo Domingo Tehuantepec
- A municipality of Oaxaca, Mexico.
Synonyms: Santo Domingo Tehuantepec
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounA city in Oaxaca, Mexico.
proper nounA municipality of Oaxaca, Mexico.
Origin
- Nahuan
- SpanishTehuantepec
- EnglishTehuantepec
Borrowed from Spanish Tehuantepec, from a Nahuan language (equivalent to Classical Nahuatl Tēcuāntepēc (literally “mountain of wild cats (jaguars, ocelots, etc.)”)), calqued from any of multiple local languages whose names for this city have similar meanings.
More words from Spanish, Nahuan
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Hindi तेवांतेपेक
- तेवांतेपेक (tevāntepek)city
Spanish Tehuantepec, Santo Domingo Tehuantepec
- Tehuantepeccity
- Santo Domingo Tehuantepeccity
- Tehuantepecmunicipality
- Santo Domingo Tehuantepecmunicipality
Cite this entry
Tehuantepec. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Tehuantepec
“Tehuantepec.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Tehuantepec. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Tehuantepec,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Tehuantepec.
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