English Explanatory Dictionary

centzontle

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A mockingbird.

Pronunciation

En-us-ncalif-cenzontle.ogg

Word forms

centzontle centzontles centzontlé cenzontli sensonte sinsonte sinsontle

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish cenzontle, from Classical Nahuatl centzontleh, shortened form of centzontlahtōleh (“mockingbird”, literally “possessor of four hundred words”), from centzontli (“four hundred, a count of four hundred”) + tlahtōlli (“language, word, statement”) + -eh (“possessor of”).

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