asteca
Catalan
Adjective
asteca m or f (masculine and feminine plural asteques)
Noun
asteca m or f by sense (plural asteques)
Further reading
- “asteca”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
- “asteca”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
- “asteca” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “asteca” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- azteca, asteque
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish azteca, from Classical Nahuatl aztēcah (“inhabitants of Aztlán”).
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /asˈtɛ.kɐ/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /aʃˈtɛ.kɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /asˈtɛ.ka/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ɐʃˈtɛ.kɐ/
- Rhymes: -ɛkɐ
- Hyphenation: as‧te‧ca
Noun
asteca m or f by sense (plural astecas)
- Aztec (any of the Nahua people of central Mexico, especially the Mexica)
- Aztec; Nahuatl (Uto-Aztecan language of the Nahua)
Adjective
asteca m or f (plural astecas, not comparable)
- Aztec; Aztecan (of or relating to the Nahua or Mexica people)
- Aztec; Aztecan; Nahuatl (of or relating to the Nahuatl language)
- Synonym: nauatle
Derived terms
- astequismo