nepantla

English

Noun

nepantla (uncountable)

1. A concept of in-between-ness associated with Chicano and Latino people.

Derived terms

• nepantlera
• nepantlism

Anagrams

• pentanal

Northern Puebla Nahuatl

Etymology

Cf. Classical Nahuatl nepantlah (“in the middle”).

Noun

nepantla

1. midday

References

• Brockway, Earl, Hershey de Brockway, Trudy, Santos Valdés, Leodegario (2018) Diccionario náhuatl del norte del estado de Puebla (Series de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas "Mariano Silva y Aceves"; 42)‎^[1] (in Spanish), segunda ILV edición (versión electrónica) edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 100