ahuehuete

English

Etymology

Spanish ahuehuete

Noun

ahuehuete (plural ahuehuetes)

1. A Montezuma cypress (Taxodium mucronatum)

Spanish

ahuehuete

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl āhuēhuētl (“cypress tree”, literally “upright drum in the water”), from ātl (“water”) + huēhuētl (“upright drum”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aweˈwete/ [a.weˈwe.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ete
• Syllabification: a‧hue‧hue‧te

Noun

ahuehuete m (plural ahuehuetes)

1. Montezuma cypress (Taxodium mucronatum)

   Synonym: sabino

Further reading

• “ahuehuete”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014