English Explanatory Dictionary

Ixcuintepec

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A town in Oaxaca, Mexico.
  2. A municipality of Oaxaca whose municipal seat is the town of the same name.

Word forms

Ixcuintepec

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Ixcuintepec, from a Nahuan language (equivalent to Classical Nahuatl Itzcuintepēc, from itzcuintli (“dog”) + tepētl (“mountain”) + -c (locative suffix)), calqued from a Mixe language (e.g. Totontepec Mixe Oc Cuvajcm, from oc (“dog”) + cuvajc (“head”)).

Synonyms

Santiago Ixcuintepec
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