Coatzacualcos

English

Alternative forms

• Coasaqualco (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Coatzacualcos, from a Nahuan language; compare Classical Nahuatl Coatzacualco.

Proper noun

Coatzacualcos

1. A city in Veracruz, Mexico.
   • 1578, Thomas Nicholas, The Pleasant Historie of the Conquest of the VVeast India, London: Henry Bynneman, translation of Historia general de las Indias by Francisco López de Gómara, page 56:

     And beeyng a little girle, certayne Merchantes dyd ſteale hir away in tyme of warre, and brought hir to be ſolde at the fayre of Xicalanco, whiche is a greate Towne neere Coaſaqualco, not farre diſtant from Tauaſco

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from a Nahuan language; compare Classical Nahuatl Coatzacualco.

Proper noun

Coatzacualcos ?

1. a city in Veracruz, Mexico