Tehuantepec

Meaning

Proper Noun

city Oaxaca (state) Mexico (country)
municipality Oaxaca (state) Mexico (country)
district Oaxaca (state) Mexico (country)

Origin

Borrowed from Spanish Tehuantepec, from a language (equivalent to Classical Nahuatl Tēcuāntepēc), calque from any of multiple local languages whose names for this city have similar meanings.

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