Azcapotzalco
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish Azcapotzalco, from Classical Nahuatl Āzcapōtzalco, from āzcapōtzalli (“anthill”) + -co (locative suffix).
Proper noun edit
Azcapotzalco
- (historical) A Tepanec polity in the Valley of Mexico.
- 2006, Manuel Aguilar-Moreno, Handbook to Life in the Aztec World, Facts On File, →ISBN, page 66:
- Around 1371, Tenochtitlan became a subordinate to the expanding Tepanec city-state of Azcapotzalco, the first society to rise to empire status since the fall of Tula 300 years before.
- One of the demarcaciones territoriales (designated delegaciones until 2016) of Mexico City.
Classical Nahuatl edit
Etymology edit
āzcapōtzalli (“anthill”) + -co (“locative suffix”)
Proper noun edit
Azcapotzalco
- Azcapotzalco.
- 1645, Horacio Carochi, Arte de la lengua mexicana con la declaracion de los aduerbios della (overall work in Spanish), Mexico: Iuan Ruyz, pages 120v–121r:
- çan yenōyuhqui ic ōquintlàpalòquè in Tlaxcaltēcatlàtòquè, in quēnin ōquitlàpalòquè in Atzcapotzalco [sic] Tlàtoāni, ſaludaron à los Principales de Tlaxcala, de la meſma manera, que al Señor de Azcapuzalco.
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Spanish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl Āzcapōtzalco, from āzcapōtzalli (“anthill”) + -co (locative suffix).
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (Spain) /aθkapotˈθalko/ [aθ.ka.pot̪ˈθal.ko]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /askapoˈtsalko/ [as.ka.poˈt̪sal.ko]
- Rhymes: -alko
- Syllabification: Az‧ca‧po‧tzal‧co
Proper noun edit
Azcapotzalco ?