Meanings
alternative obsolete Sanatepeque
- A town in Oaxaca, Mexico.
In Sanatepeque wee met with a Frier who gave us ſtately entertainment, and from thence gave us Indians to guide us to Tapanatepeque
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 90Synonyms: Santo Domingo Zanatepec
- A municipality of Oaxaca, Mexico.
Synonyms: Santo Domingo Zanatepec
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounA town in Oaxaca, Mexico.
proper nounA municipality of Oaxaca, Mexico.
Origin
- Nahuan
- SpanishZanatepec
- EnglishZanatepec
Borrowed from Spanish Zanatepec, from a Nahuan language, equivalent to Classical Nahuatl *Tzanatepēc (literally “grackle mountain”).
More words from Spanish, Nahuan
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